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Trivia Questions

French mathematician who devised the plotting system that uses coordinates named for him

The leaves of a fern are commonly called this, from the Latin for "foliage"

The "fire" type of this insect builds large mounds that interfere with harvesting hay

A perihelion is the point in the orbit of a planet or other celestial body when it's closest to this

Mildews, smuts & morels belong to this group of organisms incapable of making their own food

This phylum of sea animals named for their spiny skin includes sea urchins & sea cucumbers

This layer of fat helps maintain a whale's body temperature at 93-99 F., & that's nothing to cry over

When you "make a muscle" in your arm, you contract this 2-headed muscle

It's secreted by the liver, stored in the gallbladder & released into the duodenum after eating

It's the branch of biology that specifically studies sometimes harmful one-celled organisms