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  1. 2. Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
  2. 5. A period of the Mesozoic Era known for giant sauropods and the start of feathered dinosaurs
  3. 8. The branch of science concerned with fossil animals and plants, central to dinosaur study
  4. 10. A lagomorph known for its rapid reproduction rate and use as a model organism in biological research
  5. 11. A dromaeosaurid known for its sickle-shaped claw, popularized (and exaggerated) in movie
  6. 16. The long-term average of weather in a given place.
  7. 17. A large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat, e.g., forest or tundra
  8. 19. German word for "floor" or "level"
  9. 22. A method of statistical inference in which prior knowledge is incorporated into the analysis
  10. 23. The era of "middle life," often called the Age of Reptiles
  11. 26. The excessive richness of nutrients in a body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, leading to dense plant growth and anoxia
  12. 27. Roman general and statesman whose assassination marked a turning point in the Roman Republic
  13. 28. The driving force of evolution, described by Darwin, or a sorting operation in database theory
  14. 29. Computing that utilizes phenomena like superposition and entanglement; or a discrete packet of energy
  15. 30. The 'lizard king' whose skull could be over five feet long
  16. 31. The homeostatic mechanism for the maintenance of a constant osmotic pressure in the fluids of an organism by the control of water and salt concentrations
  17. 33. Physicist known for his wave equation and the paradoxical thought experiment involving a cat
  18. 35. The process of discovering patterns in large data sets, applicable to climate trends or pollution sources
  19. 36. In programming, the ability of an object to take on many forms; in biology, the occurrence of different forms among members of a species
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  1. 1. Acronym for a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographical data
  2. 3. Ancient Greek philosopher who was a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great
  3. 4. The order of mammals including humans, apes, monkeys, and lemurs
  4. 6. The practice or science of collecting and analysing numerical data, essential for validating findings
  5. 7. The operation of joining two or more strings or other data structures end-to-end, fundamental in programming and formal language theory
  6. 9. Austrian logician whose incompleteness theorems shook the foundations of mathematics
  7. 12. Jedi protagonist who discovered his parentage on Bespin
  8. 13. The current geological epoch, following the last major glaciation, also known as the Anthropocene debate
  9. 14. German mathematician famous for the quote, "God made the integers, all else is the work of man."
  10. 15. The study of the cycling of chemical elements through the living and nonliving parts of the Earth
  11. 18. Hutt crime lord notorious for his opulent palace on Tatooine
  12. 20. Sith Lord who served as the Emperor's chief enforcer
  13. 21. A compound term for a set of practices that combines software development and IT operations
  14. 24. A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force, a key driver of 19th-century conflicts
  15. 25. The repetition of a process or a set of instructions, often used to approximate a desired result.
  16. 32. Pioneer of theoretical computer science, whose eponymous test assesses a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior.
  17. 34. Measure of disorder or randomness in a system; used in thermodynamics and information theory