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plywood | If current building trends continue, what material will be replaced by particle and fiber board? |
100 million | About how many cubic meters of wood was used in 1991 to make products like glulam, LVL, and structural composite lumber? |
cellulose | What material results from chemically breaking down wood? |
MDF | What's the abbreviation for medium-density fiberboard? |
mechanically | How is wood broken down into chips and fibers? |
laminate | What type of flooring can be made from wood derivatives? |
paper | What widely-used product is almost always made of wood fibers? |
furniture | What category of products usually made from wood includes chairs? |
wooden spoon | What wooden utensil could you stir a pot of soup with? |
handles | Which parts of tools are sometimes made out of wood? |
beds | What pieces of furniture that most people use every night can be made out of wood? |
chopsticks | What special wooden utensils do many people use to eat Chinese takeout? |
Moisture content | What could we monitor electronically that could help inform new methods of wood protection? |
glue | Development in the wood manufacturing industry include using lignin to make what substance? |
tire | Instead of rubber, what important part of a car might someday be replaced by components of wood? |
high strength fabrics | What material might be developed from wood that could make clothes that resist wear and tear? |
modify wood | In addition to extracting components from wood, what might scientist do by adding components, for example, to make innovative products? |
carvings | Along with sculptures, what type of art have people been making out of wood for centuries? |
totem poles | What did indigenous people in North America make out of the trunks of conifers? |
Western Red Cedar | What type of tree was often used for totem poles? |
Edinburgh | What city in Scotland would you visit to see the Millennium clock tower? |
National Museum of Scotland | What museum exhibits the Millennium clock tower? |
african blackwood | What kind of wood are clarinet bodies made from? |
ripple sycamore | What expensive wood with a prized color is used to make the backs of violins? |
tonewoods | What category of wood is often used for musical instruments? |
European spruce | What's the common name for Picea abies? |
tone | Along with resonance, what property of an instrument will be affected by the wood used to make it? |
woodwind instruments | What type of instruments with a misleading name aren't always made completely out of wood? |
Arundo donax | What are woodwind instrument's reeds often made out of? |
monocot | Is the Arundo donax a monocot or dicot cane plant? |
reeds | What objects do musicians have to have in order to play woodwind instruments? |
white willow | What wood is usually used for cricket bats? |
Major League Baseball | Ash and hickory are often used for baseball bats to comply with the rules of what organization? |
parquetry | What is commonly used for the basketball courts the NBA plays on? |
maple | What wood has recently started being used to make baseball bats in addition to hickory and ash? |
fragile | Compared to hickory and ash, what adjective might be used for a maple baseball bat? |
archery bows | What pieces of equipment for shooting arrows used to be wooden? |
sticks | Which pieces of ice hockey equipment were once made out of wood? |
persimmon | When the golf club called the "wood" was actually made out of it, what type of wood was used? |
synthetic materials | What is the golf club known as the "wood" usually made out of today? |
fiberglass | What other modern material has joined composites, carbon fiber, titanium, and aluminum to replace wood in the manufacture of sporting equipment? |
cellulose | What component of wood is degraded by bacteria that scientists are still trying to learn about? |
Symbiotic | What type of bacteria are present in Xylophaga? |
sunken | What type of wood is it possible the bacteria in Xylophaga help break down? |
over a year | How long was the wood submerged in water in the study that discovered the types of bacteria in it? |
Flavobacteria | What bacteria starting with the letter "F" were found in wood after it was underwater for more than a year? |
Afro-Asiatic | What language family is Somali a part of? |
Cushitic | What part of the Afro-Asiatic language family is Somali a part of? |
Sunni Muslim | What is the majority religion of Somalis? |
12.3 million | How many people of Somali ethnicity live in Somalia? |
Ethiopia | What country has the second largest Somali population? |
Irir Samaale | From whom are several Somali clans descended? |
soo and maal | From what words is the term 'Somali' generally regarded as being derived? |
go and milk | What does 'soo and maal' mean in English? |
dhawamaal | What word in Arabic means 'wealthy' in English? |
livestock | What resource traditionally comprised Somali wealth? |
Berbera | What did the Arabs call the northern Somali coast in the 9th century? |
Po-pa-li | What did the Chinese call the northern Somali coast in the 9th century? |
15th | In what century was the term 'Somali' first used? |
the Abyssinian Emperor | Who ordered that a hymn be composed that first mentioned the Somalis? |
Zeila | Where was the Sultanate of Ifat located? |
5000 years | How long ago were rock paintings found in Somalia created? |
the Laas Geel complex | Where are the most notable rock paintings located? |
human figures | Along with animals, what is depicted on the rock paintings of Laas Geel? |
the northern Dhambalin region | Where does a notable rock painting of a man on horseback exist? |
northern | In what geographic part of Somalia are these rock paintings commonly found? |
the Doian culture | Along with the Hargesian culture, what culture was present in Somalia in the Stone age? |
Inscriptions | What undeciphered writings were found alongside the rock paintings? |
the Stone age | During what period did the Doian culture thrive? |
Somalia | In what country is the oldest evidence of ceremonial burial in the Horn of Africa located? |
4th millennium BC | From what millennium do the oldest cemeteries in the Horn of Africa date? |
the Jalelo site | At what site were important paleolithic stone tools found? |
northern | In what geographic part of Somalia were important paleolithic stone tools found? |
commerce | What economic activity in the Horn of Africa did the ancient Somalis connect to the rest of the world? |
frankincense | Along with myrrh and spices, what important luxury did ancient Somali merchants provide? |
Mycenaeans | Along with the ancient Phoenicians, Egyptians and Babylonians, what ancient people regarded myrrh as a luxury? |
Land of Punt | What ancient land was connected to the modern Somali people? |
Pharaonic Egypt | What nation did the Land of Put have a close relationship with? |
Hatshepsut | Who was a Queen of Egypt during the time when Punt and Egypt were close? |
pyramidal structures | Along with houses of dressed stone, what ancient architecture may have been influenced by Egypt? |
Cape Guardafui | Near what headland was Mosylon located? |
Damo | Along with Mosylon, Malao, Nikon, Sarapion, Opone and Essina, what city-state flourished in ancient Somalia? |
Sabaeans | Along with the Parthians and Axumites, who were the commercial competitors of the ancient Somalis? |
Indo-Greco-Roman | What trade did the ancient Somalis and others compete for? |
Red Sea | What body of water separated Somalia from the land where Islam was born? |
the Arabian Peninsula | In what location was Islam born? |
Berberi | What civilization was Mogadishu a part of? |
the City of Islam | What was another name for Mogadishu? |
gold | The trade of what luxury in East Africa was once centered on Mogadishu? |
the Walashma dynasty | What dynasty ruled the Sultanate of Ifat? |
Zeila | What was the capital of the Sultanate of Ifat? |
Djibouti | Along with parts of Ethiopia and Somalia, in what modern-day country was the Sultanate of Ifat located? |
15,000 | According to al-Umari, how many cavalry did the Sultanate of Ifat have? |
the Red Sea | Near what body of water did al-Umari say Ifat was located? |
the Ajuran Sultanate | What Somali polity of the Middle Ages was known for its fortresses? |
the Sultanate of Adal | What state employed Abmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi? |
Ahmed Gurey | What was another name by which Abmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi was known? |
the Ethiopian Empire | What state did Adal conquer? |
Sultan Ahmed Yusuf | What Somali leader received tribute from the Omani empire? |
the Ottoman and German empires | What states supported the Dervish State? |
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