Hos(pi)tal Words
This branch of medicine deals with incidence, distribution, and control of diseases.
What is epidemiology?
The snowiest single day recorded in Madison, with 17.3 inches, happened on December 3 of this year.
What is 1990?
Deep Lake in Antarctica can reach temperatures as low as -20 degrees Celsius without freezing due to the presence of this mineral in the water.
What is salt?
This cartoon character rides on a sky bison and can control water in all its forms.
Who is Katara? (Will also accept Aang)
This nearby planet has water stored in ice caps at its poles, although temperature and pressure largely prevent the formation of liquid water.
What is Mars?
These tiny branching blood vessels form a network between your tissues to exhcange oxygen, nutrients, and wastes.
What are capillaries?
This visual weather phenomenon was observed for a record 8 hours and 58 minutes in Taiwan in 2017.
What is a rainbow?
This ancient rift lake is the only lake on earth where gas hydrates—ice-like solids of crystalized gas—have been observed.
What is Lake Baikal?
This popular children's series protagonist once made the water explode out of restroom toilets to deter bullies.
Who is Percy Jackson?
The ability to support liquid water is a prerequisite for this term describing a range of orbital space around a star.
What is the habitable zone?
This part of your body contains over 120 muscles, around 220 individual ligaments and 100 joints.
What is the spine?
The first ever tropical storm warning for this region, which has been home to many famous Hilaries (Duff, Swank, Cruz), happened ahead of Hurricane Hilary.
What is southern California?
This largest alpine lake in North America is visibly convex when viewed from space due to the Earth’s curvature.
What is Lake Tahoe?
In this 2006 Australian teen drama, the three protagonists turn into mermaids if they touch water.
What is H2O: Just Add Water?
The New Horizons mission in 2020 sent back evidence suggesting that this celestial body might have once boasted a warm, liquid ocean on its surface.
What is Pluto?
This word can be used to describe a regular inhale or to describe breathing a substance into your lungs by accident.
What is aspirate?
The greatest recorded 2 minute temperature increase and the fastest recorded temperature drop both happened in this state.
What is South Dakota?
The world's largest asphalt deposit is found in Lake Pitch, Trinidad; its hydrocarbon-rich environment and unique microbial diversity have led researchers to use it to study conditions for life on this moon of Saturn.
What is Titan?
This character in the rebooted 2018 TV show She-Ra and the Princesses of Power lives in a sea kingdom and can control water.
Who is Mermista?
This moon of Saturn emits geysers of ice from its polar regions.
What is Enceladus?
These small bumps on the top of your tongue help grip food while your teeth chew.
What are papillae?
The highest wind speed ever recorded anywhere on earth was observed on the summit of this peak, which is also the highest peak in the Northeastern United States and the most topographically prominent mountain east of the Mississippi River.
What is Mt. Washington (New Hampshire)?
A potential hoax in the Moose Flats of Ryan Island in Siskiwit Lake on Isle Royale in Lake Superior claimed to be an example of this term describing an “island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake”.
What is a recursive lake?
A family in this 1975 book drinks from a magical spring that blesses (or curses) them with eternal life.
What is Tuck Everlasting?
This name is given to planets such as Uranus and Neptune that are suspected to have massive oceans of supercritical water below their cloudy surfaces.
What is an ice giant/water giant?