Hydrology
DK
Water related trivia
Hydrologic Vocabulary
Famous people
100

This is Europe's second largest river.

What is the Danube?

100

This building was planned by Theophil von Hansen, who also planned buildings like the Wiener Börse, Musikverein and the Austrian Parliament. It serves nowadays mainly as a seminar hotel, and hosted an annual DK symposium?

What is Schloss Hernstein?

100

A country without access to the sea or ocean.

What is a land-locked country?

100

Everybody is talking about Corona's second but at sea this phenomenon occurs all the time.

What is a wave?

100

This person can divide by zero.

Who is Chuck Norris?

200

This variable is used to define the extent of the Sahel zone.

What is precipitation?

200

This is an area where you can find four rain gauges on 66 ha.

What is the HOAL?

200

This is the name of both a popular autumn vegetable and a Japanese island.

What is Hokkaido?

200

Soil with grain size between 0.002 mm and 0.063 mm.

What is silt?

200

They performed the one-hit wonder It's raining men.

Who are The weather girls?

300

Circle the world at 45 degrees north & you'll pass through Lake Huron & this shrinking Sea of Kazakhstan & Uzbekistan.

What is the Aral Sea?

300

This cluster also does research with viruses but has nothing to do with Corona.

What is the Water & Health cluster?

300

Isotope with a half-life of 12.32 years and atomic mass of 3.0160492 u.

What is Tritium?

300

This term can refer to the amount of work but also to the solid material carried by the stream.

What is (sediment/stream) load?

300

This person has a Wikipedia page, holds a Robert E. Horton medal and speaks Italian.

Who is Günter Blöschl?

400

Here you find more fresh water than in all rivers on the planet combined.

What is the atmosphere?

400

There used to be more but currently there are only 17 of them.

What is a DK student?

400

These mythical creatures are often confused with fairies. We can divide them into three subgroups: the Meliae, the Naiads, the Nereids, and the Oreads.

What is a nymph?

400

This phenomenon occurs in open waters when algae get high on too many nutrients.

What is eutrophication?

400

They blessed the rains down in Africa.

Who is Toto?

500

This is usually not the 10 minutes before an exam, but a metric that is often computed in statistics.

What is a confidence interval?

500

This is the most fun part of the annual DK symposium.

(every answer counts)

500

The largest of these man-made water structures used for recreation is located in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt and covers an area of 96,800 m2. Largest in Europe is located in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

What is a swimming pool?

500

This is a property of a curve and is commonly used to describe diffusion and fluid flow in porous media.

What is Tortuosity?

500

If you swim faster than this person you are ready to win multiple gold medals at the Olympics, even if the person already announced his/her retirement.

Who is Michael Phelps?


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