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OLogies
Anthropology
People and cultures in the past and today
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Being an Anthropologist: Laurel Kendall
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Dress Up a Horse
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If Trash Could Talk
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Inca Investigation
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Make Your Own Mythic Creatures Stationery
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Make Your Own Mythic Mask or Puppet
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Make Your Own Paper
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Mint Your Own Coin
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Mythic Creatures Challenge
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Poison For Good, Poison For Evil
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Silk Road Fables
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Sounds of the Silk Road
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The Ancient City of Petra
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Up Close With a Zapotec Urn
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What's the Big Idea About Anthropology?
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What's This? Early Humans
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What's This? Mythic Creatures
Archaeology
People and artifacts from ancient time
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A Walk Through the Ruins of Petra
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Ask a Scientist about Mummies
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Being a Zooarchaeologist: Sandra Olsen
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Being an Archaeologist: Chuck Spencer
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Create Your Own Time Capsule
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If Trash Could Talk
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Inca Investigation
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Make Your Own Archaeology Stationery
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Making a Field Journal
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Map Your World
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Meet the OLogist: David Hurst Thomas
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Mint Your Own Coin
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Piecing It All Together
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The Ancient City of Petra
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Tools of the Trade
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Up Close With a Zapotec Urn
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What Do You Know About Archaeology?
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What's the Big Idea About Archaeology?
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What's This? Early Humans
Astronomy
The Universe and everything in it
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A Closer Look at Mars
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Are YOU cut out for Mars?
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Being an Astronomer: Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Build the Big Dipper
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Cosmic Connections
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Cosmic Cookies
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Cosmic Wallpapers
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Don't Be Lost in Space
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How Did the Universe Begin?
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If Rocks Could Talk
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In Pictures: Beyond Planet Earth
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In Pictures: Journey to the Stars
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Make Your Own Astronomy Stationery
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Meet the Universe's Main Attraction... Gravity
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Moon Flip Book
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One-on-One with the Sun
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Planetary Mysteries
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Solar System Scavenger Hunt
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Space and Time
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Space Jell-O
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Space Travel Guide
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Stargazing
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The Journey Begins
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The Milky Way Galaxy
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What Do You Know About Astronomy?
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What do you know about Stars?
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What Do You Know About The Universe?
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What's the Big Idea About Astronomy?
Biodiversity
The rich variety of life on Earth
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Around the World with DNA
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Ask a Scientist about Cuba's Biodiversity
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Ask a Scientist About Our Environment
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Being a Conservation Biologist: Eleanor Sterling
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Bio-Benefits
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Cuban Wildlife Matching Game
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Dive Into Worlds Within the Sea
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DNA Detective
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Draw a Monarch
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Endangered Species Game
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Feed the Birds
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Global Grocery
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Going Going Gone
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How to Help Biodiversity
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In Pictures: Fascinating Fish
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Keeping a Field Journal
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Life in the City
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Make Your Own Biodiversity Stationery
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Meet the OLogist: Ana Luz Porzecanski
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Meet the OLogist: Felicity Arengo
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Meet the OLogist: Mandë Holford
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Meet the OLogist: Mark Siddall
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Meet the OLogist: Robert Voss
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Nature's Superheroes
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Saving Species
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The Butterfly Kingdom
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The Legend of the Flying Frog
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Theodore Roosevelt's Outdoor Adventures
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Tree of Life
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Web of Life
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Welcome to the Dzanga-Sangha
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What Do You Know About Biodiversity?
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What Do You Know About Life on Earth?
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What Do You Know About Poison?
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What is Biodiversity?
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What's This? Feeding
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What's This? Reproduction
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What's This? Staying Safe
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What's This? Vietnam
Brain
The organ inside our skulls
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Ask A Scientist: Brain
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Brain Power
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Draw Your Nervous System
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Express Yourself!
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Optical Illusions and How They Work
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Read With Your Fingers
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Taste a Smell Test
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Test Your Reaction!
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Trip Up Your Brain
Climate Change
Long-term changes in global temperature
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Arctic Story Puzzles
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Ask a Scientist About Our Environment
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Be an Energy Saver
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Going Going Gone
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In Pictures: Climate Change
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Living on Ice
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Make a Terrarium
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Rising CO2
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So What's Climate?
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Take the Climate Quiz
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What Do You Know About Climate Change?
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What is the Greenhouse Effect?
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What's the Big Idea About Climate Change?
Earth
The dynamic planet that we call home
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All About Jade
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Are YOU cut out for Antarctica?
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Ask a Scientist About Our Environment
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Being a Geologist: Ed Mathez
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Create a Compass
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Earthquakes: Tremors from Below
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Edible Earth
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Grow Rock Candy
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Hurricanes: Storms from the sea
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If Rocks Could Talk
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Journey to Deep Sea Vents
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Make Your Own Earth Stationery
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Make Your Own Weather Station
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Making Rocks
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Meet the OLogist: Ed Mathez
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Meet the Universe's Main Attraction... Gravity
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Planetary Mysteries
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Plates on the Move
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Race to the South Pole
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Start a Rock Collection
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The Amazing Mundo
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Tornadoes: Spinning Thunderstorms
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Volcanoes: Magma Rising
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What Do You Know About Earth?
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What's the Big Idea About Earth?
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What's This? Gold
Genetics
How genes are passed down generations
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A Nature and Nurture Walk in Mendel Park
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All About Cloning
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Around the World with DNA
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Being a Molecular Biologist: RobDeSalle
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Differentiate! The Stem Cell Card Game
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DNA Detective
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DNA in a Blender
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In Pictures: CSI with DNA
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Keeping a Field Journal
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Make a DNA Model
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Make Your Own Genetics Stationery
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Meet the OLogist: George Amato
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Science Scoop
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The Quest for the Perfect Tomato
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Wear a Chimp on Your Wrist
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What Do You Know About Genetics?
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What Makes You, YOU
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What's the Big Idea About Genetics?
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What's This? Frozen Tissue
Marine Biology
Life in the ocean
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A Whale of a Tale
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Be an Ocean Helper
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Being an Ichthyologist: Melanie Stiassny
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Crazy Camouflage
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Create a Coral Reef
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Dive Into Worlds Within the Sea
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Find My Plankton Baby Picture
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In Pictures: Fascinating Fish
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Journey to Deep Sea Vents
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Journey to the Bottom of the Sea
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Make Your Own Creatures of Light
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Make Your Own Marine Biology Stationery
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Meet the OLogist: Melanie Stiassny
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Ocean Creature Feature
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Rubber Blubber Gloves
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Slowing the Flow
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Test Density with a Supersaturated Solution
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They Glow!
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What Do You Know About Life on Earth?
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What Do You Know About Marine Biology?
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What is Marine Biology?
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Work the System!
Microbiology
Bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms
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Ask a Scientist About Microbes
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Bacteria in the Cafeteria Game
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Gutsy: The Gut Microbiome Card Game
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How Lou Got the Flu
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Human Microbiome Minecraft Map
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Make a Home for Microbes
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Meet the OLogist: Susan Perkins
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Microbes Coloring Book & Scavenger Hunt
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Tree of Life
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What Do You Know About Life on Earth?
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What Do You Know About the Human Microbiome?
PaleontOLogy
Dinosaurs and other things that lived long ago
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Anatomy Adventure
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Ask a Scientist About Dinosaurs
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Being a PaleontOLogist: Mark Norell
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Beyond T. rex
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Buried Bones
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Drawing Dinos
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Face to Fossil
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Fighting Dinos
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Finding Fossils
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Going Gobi
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Identification Adventure
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In Pictures: Fossils
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Layers of Time
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Living Large
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Make Your Own Dino Stationery
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Meet the OLogist: John Flynn
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Meet the OLogist: Ross MacPhee
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Mesozoic Museum
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Paleontology Books
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Pterosaurs: The Card Game
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Talk to a Titanosaur
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What Do You Know about Paleontology?
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What do you know about T. rex?
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What's the Big Idea About Paleontology?
Physics
Matter and its motion through space and time
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Atomic Mobile
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Einstein in Time
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Light Quest
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Light, Matter, and Energy
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Make Your Own Einstein Stationery
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Nobody's Perfect
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See the Light
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Space and Time
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Space Jell-O
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Thinking in Three Dimensions
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Train of Thought
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Views from Windows
Water
The liquid that makes life on Earth possible
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Arctic Story Puzzles
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Be a Water Saver
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Journey to the Bottom of the Sea
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Living on Ice
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Test Density with a Supersaturated Solution
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What Do You Know About Virtual Water?
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What's the Big Idea about Water?
Zoology
All animals from insects to mammals
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Around the World with DNA
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Ask a Scientist about Cuba's Reptiles and Amphibians
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Beautiful Breeds
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Birdwatching with Theodore Roosevelt
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Carly's Adventures In Wasp Land
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Crazy Camouflage
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Create a Coral Reef
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Draw a Monarch
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Feed the Birds
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Horse Gaits Flipbooks: Walk, Trot, and Gallop!
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In Pictures: Extreme Mammals
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In Pictures: Flamingos
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Make Your Own Creatures of Light
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Make Your Own Horse Stationery
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Mammal Flip Books
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Meet the OLogist: Chris Raxworthy
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Moving Mammals
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North American Mammals Coloring Book
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Ocean Creature Feature
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Rubber Blubber Gloves
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Saving Species
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Slowing the Flow
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Super Teeth
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Talking to Fireflies
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The Butterfly Kingdom
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They Glow!
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Tree of Life
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What Do You Know About Horses?
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What's This? Breathing
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What's This? Leeches
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What's This? Life at the Limits
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What's This? Sensing
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Wonderful World of Wasps
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You Are The Queen
OLogy Cards
Animal Cards
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015:
Eudromia elegans
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035:
Crinoids
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036:
Brachiopods
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093:
ruffed lemur
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094:
Sumatran tiger
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097:
northern spotted owl
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098:
humpback whale
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100:
St. Vincent parrot
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101:
pacu
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112:
yacare caiman
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114:
American crocodile
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115:
Asian elephant
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116:
Tibetan antelope
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117:
Dolly
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119:
Bengal tiger
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120:
California condor
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121:
electric eel
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122:
Goliath frog
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123:
hellbender
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124:
kagu
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125:
king cobra
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126:
Komodo dragon
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127:
leatherback sea turtle
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128:
mountain gorilla
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129:
radiated tortoise
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130:
starfish
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131:
aye-aye
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132:
whooping crane
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133:
ants
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135:
blue ringed octopus
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141:
dragonflies
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145:
gorgonian fan coral
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147:
ladybird beetle
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150:
mites
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151:
mosquitoes
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154:
Portuguese
man-of-war -
155:
pseudoscorpions
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158:
termites
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160:
white-tailed spider
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186:
giant tubeworms
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190:
cichlids
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192:
giant squid
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194:
zooplankton
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195:
West Indian manatee
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198:
giant sea spider
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199:
striped bass
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200:
orange roughy
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201:
brown pelican
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202:
snowy egret
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203:
triton trumpet
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204:
sea otter
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205:
blue whale
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206:
common dolphin
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210:
California sea lion
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212:
coelacanth
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275:
pygmy loris
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288:
polar bear
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292:
horse
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306:
American black bear
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307:
greater short-nosed
fruit bat -
308:
white-handed gibbon
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309:
Thomson's gazelle
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310:
red kangaroo
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334:
Broad-tailed Swallowtail
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335:
Juvia Large Crow
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336:
Magellan's Iridescent Birdwing
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337:
Purple Crows
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338:
Taiwan Beech Hairstreak
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345:
common eastern firefly
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352:
golden poison frog
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353:
Gaboon viper
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354:
cone snail
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364:
tardigrade
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365:
staghorn coral
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366:
axolotl
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367:
Cyphonia clavata
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368:
smalltooth sawfish
Extinct Animal Cards
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001:
Chirostenotes pergracilis
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002:
Diatryma gigantea
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003:
Tyrannosaurus rex
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004:
Alxasaurus elesitaiensis
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005:
Pelecanimimus polyodon
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006:
Apatosaurus excelsus
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007:
Gondwanatitan faustoi
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008:
Huayangosaurus taibaii
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009:
Gastonia burgei
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010:
Triceratops horridus
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011:
Achelousaurus horneri
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012:
Protoceratops andrewsi
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013:
Drinker nisti
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014:
Eoraptor lunensis
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016:
Presbyornis pervetus
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017:
Stegosaurus stenops
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018:
Velociraptor mongoliensis
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019:
Oviraptor philoceratops
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032:
Psittacosaurus mongoliensis
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037:
Trilobites
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263:
Coelophysis
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264:
Confuciusornis
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265:
Effigia okeeffeae
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266:
pterosaurs
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267:
Redondasaurus
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268:
Seismosaurus
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269:
Tarbosaurus
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340:
Mamenchisaurus
hochuanensis -
356:
Dimorphodon macronyx
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357:
Jeholopterus ningchengensis
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358:
Pteranodon longiceps
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359:
Pterodaustro guinazui
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360:
Quetzalcoatlus northropi
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361:
Tupuxuara leonardii
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373:
Patagotitan mayorum
Anthropology Cards
Artifact Cards
Astronomy Cards
Biology Cards
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029:
Cladistics
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031:
Extinction
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086:
genetics
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088:
DNA
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089:
gene
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091:
endangered
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102:
cell
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103:
chromosomes
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104:
bases
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105:
breed
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106:
nucleus
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107:
Human Genome Project
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108:
genome
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109:
Nature nurture
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110:
genetic modification
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111:
clone
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134:
biodiversity
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138:
cyanobacteria
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140:
dinoflagellates
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143:
giant kelp
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144:
giant puffball mushroom
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148:
invasive species
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153:
penicillin
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187:
camouflage
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188:
invertebrate
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189:
vertebrate
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193:
phytoplankton
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196:
sea snow
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209:
locomotion
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211:
feeding
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213:
respiration and breathing
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214:
communication
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293:
domestication
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326:
brain
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327:
neuron
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328:
nervous system
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329:
brain plasticity
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330:
senses
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331:
emotions
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332:
thinking
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339:
endemic
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344:
bioluminescence
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371:
human microbiome
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372:
influenza
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378: perception
Expedition Cards
Geology Cards
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034:
sedimentary rocks
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215:
hydrothermal vents
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241:
sandstone
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242:
deformed conglomerate
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243:
granite
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244:
igneous rocks
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245:
limestone
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246:
metamorphic rocks
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247:
obsidian
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249:
earthquakes
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250:
volcanoes
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251:
hot spots
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252:
Ring of Fire
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253:
plate tectonics
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254:
mid-ocean ridge
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255:
Pangaea
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259:
jade
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272:
gold
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287:
sea ice
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291:
water
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294:
weather
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295:
climate
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296:
climate change
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297:
fossil fuels
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298:
carbon dioxide
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299:
solar power
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300:
wind power
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301:
water power
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302:
nuclear power
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303:
geothermal power
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304:
carbon capture & storage
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355:
mercury
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362:
hurricanes
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363:
tornadoes
OLogist Cards
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020:
Mike Novacek
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021:
Mark Norell
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022:
Amy Davidson
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023:
Roy Chapman Andrews
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070:
Sir Isaac Newton
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071:
Edwin Hubble
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072:
Mike Shara
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073:
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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090:
George Barrowclough
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092:
Yael Wyner
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095:
Joel Cracraft
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096:
Rob DeSalle
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099:
Howard Rosenbaum
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113:
George Amato
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118:
Gregor Mendel
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137:
Chris Raxworthy
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142:
Eleanor Sterling
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152:
Paula Mikkelsen
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159:
Vladimir Ovtsharenko
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161:
Albert Einstein
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162:
Marie Curie
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163:
Johannes Kepler
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164:
Galileo Galilei
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171:
Sir Arthur Eddington
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184:
Melanie Stiassny
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185:
Mark Siddall
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207:
Ian Harrison
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208:
Adriana Aquino
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220:
Chuck Spencer
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221:
Christina Elson
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234:
David Hurst Thomas
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235:
Craig Morris
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238:
Marshall Saville
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240:
Ro Kinzler
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248:
Jim Webster
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256:
Ed Mathez
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258:
George Harlow
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270:
Sterling Nesbitt
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271:
Julie Feinstein
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273:
Steve Quinn
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274:
Martha M. Hurley
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276:
Laurel Kendall
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305:
John Flynn
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311:
Felicity Arengo
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312:
Ross MacPhee
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313:
Rebecca Oppenheimer
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314:
Mordecai-Mark Mac Low
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320:
Robert Falcon Scott
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321:
Henry "Birdie" Bowers
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322:
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
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323:
Roald Amundsen
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324:
Olav Bjaaland
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325:
Oscar Wisting
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370:
Susan Perkins
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374:
Theodore Roosevelt
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376:
Ana Luz Porzecanski
Paleontology Cards
Physics Cards
Place Cards
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026:
Mongolia
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027:
Ukhaa Tolgod
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047:
Sun
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048:
Mercury
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049:
Venus
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050:
Earth
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051:
Mars
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052:
Jupiter
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053:
Saturn
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054:
Uranus
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055:
Neptune
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056:
Pluto
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076:
The Big Dipper
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077:
Crab Nebula
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079:
Polaris
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080:
Orion
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081:
Solar System
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082:
Milky Way Galaxy
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083:
Universe
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084:
Earth's Moon
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139:
Dzanga-Sangha
rain forest -
146:
habitat
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149:
Madagascar
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178:
coral reefs
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179:
estuaries
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180:
continental shelf
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181:
deep sea
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182:
mangroves
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183:
seafloor
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197:
polar seas
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216:
Huánuco Pampa
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223:
Petra
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224:
Mexico
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225:
Jordan
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226:
Siq
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227:
Peru
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230:
St. Catherines Island
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233:
Conservation Lab
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257:
Guatemala
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260:
Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
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289:
arctic
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319:
Antarctica
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333:
Taiwan
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343:
Europa
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375:
Cuba
Specimen Cards
Tool Cards
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060:
Hubble Space Telescope
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061:
telescope
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062:
Sojourner
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063:
Viking
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064:
Pathfinder
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087:
field journal
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156:
reduce, reuse, recycle
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173:
laser
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191:
the Alvin
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219:
survey
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229:
trowel
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236:
microscope
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237:
magnetometer
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341:
liquid mirror telescope
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342:
Curiosity rover
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349:
Mount Wilson
Observatory -
350:
Planck satellite