Oceanography
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Trivia!
100

A point in the ocean over 36,000 feet deep.

What is the Mariana's Trench?

100

The time it takes for a substance to lose half of its content or radioactivity.

What is half-life?

100

The kingdom that mushrooms belong in.

What is Fungi?

100

The only diprotic strong acid.

What is sulfuric acid (H2SO4)?

100

The nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way (it will collide with ours in about 3.8 billion years).

What is Andromeda?

200

A telescope like device used for navigation utilizing the sun and horizon line.

What is a sextant?

200

A special name for the function loge which can be used to cancel out a function where e has a variable in its exponent. 

What is the natural log (ln)?

200

The megastrobilus for a gymnosperm.

What is a pine cone?

200

The oxidation numbers of all elements in the compound (NH4)2SO4.

What is H:+1, O:-2, N:-3, S:+6

200

Country that's national animal is a unicorn.

What is Scotland?

300
What the word SONAR stands for.
What is Sound Navigation and Ranging?
300

A function used to model continuous exponential growth. Often formatted with the initial population size multiplied by e raised to the rate and time.

What is Pert?

300
This clade, occurring before gymnosperms, has secondary growth of vascular tissues but does not produce seeds, instead reproducing through spores

What is a progymnosperm?

300

The amount of energy required to liberate/release photoelectrons from the surface of a metal.

What is work function?

300

NASA telescope launched on December 25th, 2021, designed to conduct infrared astronomy.

What is James Webb Space Telescope?

400

The name for the "North Star" found within Ursa Major.

What is Polaris?

400

A common name for the maximum or minimum point on a graph with an even degree.

What is the vertex?

400

The only remaining species of this genus. Thought to be extinct until discovered in 1691 and to have formed a symbiotic relationship with a type of marsupial for reproductive purposes.

What is Ginko Biloba?

400

The work done in J (joules) when a balloon deflates from 3.210L to 0.175L under an external pressure of 1.03atm.

What is 317 J?

400

The "happiest" country in the world.

What is Finland?

500

What differentiates El Niño from La Niña regarding wind?

What is weaker or stronger trade winds?

500

The solution for the half-life of a continuous function with a rate of -0.65.

*HINT: Use Pert

What is t=1.0664?

500

Plant that is currently blooming in the Cal Poly Humboldt greenhouse that only flowers once every several years.

What is the corpse flower?

500

The frequency of a photon with a wavelength of 713nm. (Assume speed of light is 3.00*108 m/s)

What is 4.21*1014 s-1 ?

500

The only word in the English language that has three double letters in a row.

What is bookkeeper?

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