What is Newspaper ceiling tiles, soda bottle carpet, denim in walls, automatic lights, solar power, water capture, fly-ash concrete, greenhouse and more!
100
The Opah, a fish scientists have discovered has the distinction of being the only known _____-blooded fish on earth.
What is warm
200
Close contour lines on a map indicate that a mountain is ___________?
What is Steep
200
In wilderness medicine, we learned about RICE therapy.
What is Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation
200
A factor that does not change when other variables change.
What is Constant
200
According to Jehan Sparks, which expression is more accurate – “opposites attract” or “birds of a feather folk together”?
What is “birds of a feather folk together”
200
No longer just gas, solids, and liquids, international researchers discover a new state of _______, called the Jahn-Teller metal.
What is Matter
300
When all the water and snow that falls on a particular part of land ends up in the same body of water, that is called a…
What is Watershed
300
Our Chickadee Ridge field trip was led by Kirk Hardy from TINS.
What is Tahoe Institute for Natural Science
300
A standard test by which other test results can be compared.
What is Control
300
Where is the safest place to be in the Tahoe basin in the event of a tsunami?
What is on a boat in the middle of the lake
300
A graduate of the Royal College of Art invented the first man-made, biologically functional ________, made of chloroplasts and silk protein and capable of absorbing carbon dioxide and light, and releasing breathable oxygen.
What is leaf
400
What is another name for the Lake Trout?
What is Mackinaw
400
Our boat trip went out on the R/V John Le Conte, what does R/V stand for?
What is research vessel
400
If an experiment cannot be __________ and show the same results, it implies experimental error.
What is repeated
400
We analyzed hair sample evidence by looking at the _________ inside a hair follicle.
What is medulla
400
University of Houston has created a 3 cent optical lens that can be placed on your phone, turning it into a ____________.
What is Microscope
500
Will we ever have any more or less water on Earth than we have today?
No, because matter cannot be created or destroyed
500
Our chemistry lab tested for the source of SRP, which was causing algal blooms.
What is soluble reactive phosphorus
500
When scientists expect changes to occur before they investigate.
What is bias
500
What bones in a fish can be dated like the rings on a tree to tell age?
What is Otoliths
500
Tesla announced a new solution for home energy, their Powerwall Home battery (a rechargeable lithium-ion) which can power an entire household off the grid, helping homeowners convert to ______ energy.