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