Aviation
This is where the airplanes park when at the airport.
What is an apron
This control structure allows a program to execute a statement when a certain condition is met
What is an if statement?
In 1952, Rosalind Franklin had her monumental scientific discovery, the shape of DNA, stolen by these two scientists.
Who are Watson and Crick?
The temperature at which the current concentration of water vapor in the air will reach saturation.
What is the Dew Point?
Leading to this: unseen changes rapidly heading towards changes in a system
Tipping Points
An aircraft can use this precision instrument approach to land the plane in less than ideal conditions.
What is an ILS (instrument landing system)
This Linear data structure follows a Last In First Out (LIFO) principle
What is a stack?
The two theories for the origin of life on Earth are called the 'deep-sea hydrothermal vent' hypothesis, and this, which sounds like a nice spot for a vacation.
What is the Warm Little Pond hypothesis?
This angular momentum principle, applied to rotational bodies, explains the reason that lows and highs spin in their respective directions in both hemispheres.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Less you know, the more you think you know
Illusory Superiority
This airspace, surrounding the busiest airports, has a ceiling of 10,00ft MSL and requires ATC clearance to enter
What is Class Bravo (B) Airspace
This sorting algorithm, with average time complexity of O(n log n), recursively divides the array into halves, sorts them, and then merges them.
What is merge sort?
Amino acids are given prefixes based on their configuration. Dextro amino acids, and these, the left-handed molecules used by the majority of life as we know it
What are levo amino acids?
An extremely healthy and robust thunderstorm, typically associated with hazards such as strong winds, hail, tornadoes, and also Clash Royale.
What is a supercell?
The deceptive marketing companies use to appear more sustainable
Greenwashing
This federal plan funds public-use airports in the United States from an allocated budget.
What is the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems.
This classic synchronization problem involves allocating limited resources among multiple processes without causing a deadlock.
What is the Dining Philosphers Problem?
In 1859, Louis Pasteur performed an experiment using flasks with curved necks and sterile broth, successfully disproving this common belief at the time about the origin of life.
What is spontaneous generation?
This extrapolated measurement predicts the temperature an air parcel would have if all the moisture was condensed out of it and brought dry adiabatically down to the surface.
What is Equivalent Potential Temperature?
You are what you eat; this system promotes mass production facilities with less than desirable conditions
Industrial Food Animal Production (IFAP)
This exterior instrument on an aircraft reads the airplane's airspeed and vertical speed, with a built-in heat so it doesn't ice over.
What is a pitot tube
This undecidable problem asks whether a program, given an input, will eventually stop running or continue forever.
What is the Halting Problem?
This particle is created by cosmic rays, travels incredibly fast, and decays in microseconds into an electron and neutrinos. Its name is reminiscent of both the Greek alphabet and the sound a cat makes...
What is a muon?
When a high altitude elongated low pressure is amplified enough to penetrate the Caribbean, this phenomenon, often abbreviated as a TUTT, can inhibit the development of tropical cyclones caught under it due to an excessive amount of wind shear.
What is a Tropical Upper Tropospheric Trough?
Murdered by local ranchers for his activism about protecting the preservation of the Amazon
Chico Mendes