Airports
Airport surface on which aircraft land and takeoff
What is a runway?
Data security process in which information is converted to ciphertext
What is encryption?
Processes through which certain gasses trap heat in the atmosphere
What is the greenhouse effect?
Light bouncing off of a surface, such as a mirror
What is reflection?
Fastest ever manned airplane, flown to Mach 6.7 in 1967
What is the North American X-15A-2?
Paths used by aircraft to move to and from runways
What are taxiways?
Simple shift cipher named after Roman leader
What is a Caesar cipher?
Long-term shifting in the Earth's average weather patterns
What is climate change?
Light bending when moving from one medium to another
What is refraction?
1937 airship crash in Lakehurst, NJ
What was the Hindenburg disaster?
Rotating beacon colors used by civilian land airports
What are green and white?
A person skilled in information technology who achieves goals by non-standard means
What is a hacker?
The most common greenhouse gas in the atmosphere
What is water vapor?
Lens that focuses light to a focal point
What is a convex or converging lens?
Light color used to mark the edge of airport taxiways
Whats are blue lights?
Airport with the most runways of any civilian airport
What is Chicago O'Hare Airport?
English code breaking center which analyzed Enigma and Lorenz ciphers during WW2
What is Bletchley Park?
Two examples of extreme weather events worsened by climate change
What are droughts, wildfires, extreme rainfall, hurricanes, and tornadoes?
Type of telescope that uses mirrors to magnify an image.
What is a reflecting telescope?
Perceived pattern of stars, defining one of 88 regions of the sky
What is a constellation?
One of two approach path indicator systems commonly used at airports
What is PAPI or VASI?
First programmable electronic computer, created by Tommy Flowers and Max Newman
What is Colossus?
Natural or artificial process that removes CO2 from the atmosphere
What is a carbon sink?
Study of light source spectra, used in astronomy to study stars and other objects
What is spectroscopy?
Polyalphabetic substitution cipher first described in 1553, thought to be unbreakable for 300 years
What is the Vigenère Cipher?