Water Types
Water with a pH higher than 7, often with minerals or electrolysis added.
What is alkaline water?
This grassland is characterized by its scattered trees and warm climate, often home to large herds of grazing animals like zebras.
What are savannas?
This mischievous creature, often related to demons and devils, may derive from the term for a young tree - no wonder their often miniscule size.
What are imps?
This is a random signal with equal intensity at different frequencies, often used to block out outside sounds.
What is white noise?
This process relies on the lighter density of its titular object to separare it out from gravel and sand.
What is gold-panning?
A mix of fresh and saltwater, commonly found in estuaries.
What are brackish waters?
This biome is characterized by their incredibly short growing seasons, as their tree growth is hindred by frigid temperatures.
What is the tundra?
Also known as the millionfish, these are one of the world's most wildly distributed tropical fish and are often used as a model creature in ecological field.
What is the guppy?
This British television series derives its name from the technique of scrying, wherein one would look into this object to see how their reflection may change.
What is Black Mirror?
This gem can only be found while mining in Minecraft's mountain biomes, but make up a large part of the game's currency system.
What are emeralds?
Water safe for drinking is referred to as this, coming from the Latin root "potare", meaning to drink.
What is potable water?
These marine biomes are considered some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, referred to as "rainforests of the sea."
These tree-dwelling mammals have large eyes to see in the darkness, and small wings to glide across the sky.
What are sugar gliders?
This experimental, wind-powered vehicle, known for "going directly downwind faster than the wind", derives its name from members of the Thrush family.
What is the Blackbird?
Although often mistaken for earthborne minerals, this gem is formed by fossilized tree resin, and can often be found with deceased insects inside.
What is amber?
This American military contractor is now known as Constellis, but first recieved notoriety for the Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad, and was later pardoned by Donald Trump in 2020.
Who are Blackwater?
This terrestrial biome is characterized by hot, dry summers followed by mild winters, with thorny & tough shrubs and plants adapted to drought.
What is a chapparal?
These household goblins or fairies derive originally from Scotland, and do the labors or home owners after they go to sleep.
What are brownies?
This 1982 hit single by Billy Idol draws referrence to the sudden tradition of a "shotgun wedding."
What is White Wedding?
Major deposites of this gem are often found in kimberlite pipes, volcanic structures formed by eruptions.
What are diamonds?
This type of spring water can only come from free-flowing underground wells that move to the surface as a result of natural pressure, but is often mistake as being merely "fancy" water.
What is artesian water?
This is the largest single desert on Earth, defined by its severe lack of precipitation.
What is the Antarctic Desert?
This vulpine creature has a far longer life span that most mammals, and is rumored to make fire when its tail strikes against the ground.
What is the Chinese fox?
This artistic technique originating in the Renaissance era comes from the Italian word for light-dark, defined by its strong contrasts to emphasize volume.
What is chiaroscuro?
This mineral was once considered the rarest gemstone in the world, and was first found in Myanmar by gem dealer Arthur C.D. Pain.
What is Painite?