Geography
This is the largest desert on Earth by total area.
What is Antarctica?
This instrument measures atmospheric pressure.
What is a barometer?
This force pulls objects toward Earth’s center.
What is gravity?
This is the distance between two notes measured in steps of the scale, such as seconds, thirds, or fifths.
What is an interval?
CPU stands for this.
What is Central Processing Unit?
This line of latitude at 23.5° south marks the southernmost point where the Sun can appear directly overhead.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
These clouds are commonly associated with thunderstorms and severe weather.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
This physicist formulated the three laws of motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This term refers to the central note or “home” of a piece of music.
What is the tonic?
This type of network spans a relatively small area such as a school or office building.
What is a LAN (Local Area Network)?
This country contains both the Atacama Desert and much of the Andes Mountains.
What is Chile?
This scale, enhanced in 2007, is used to classify tornado intensity based on damage.
What is the Enhanced Fujita Scale?
This law states that the voltage across a conductor equals current times resistance.
What is Ohm’s Law?
This refers to the stacking of notes in thirds to form chords, which is the foundation of most Western harmonic structures.
What is tertian harmony?
This programming language, developed at Bell Labs in the 1970s, is widely used in operating systems and embedded systems.
What is C?
This narrow waterway separates the Malay Peninsula from the Indonesian island of Sumatra and is one of the world’s busiest shipping routes.
What is the Strait of Malacca?
This phenomenon occurs when warm ocean temperatures in the Pacific disrupt normal atmospheric circulation patterns worldwide.
What is El Niño?
This quantum principle states that one cannot simultaneously know both the exact position and momentum of a particle.
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
This harmonic concept describes how chords are assigned roles (like tonic, predominant, dominant) based on their tendency to resolve within a key.
What is functional harmony?
This encryption system uses separate public and private keys rather than one shared key.
What is asymmetric encryption?
This tectonic boundary, stretching through the Atlantic Ocean, is where the Eurasian and North American plates diverge near Iceland.
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
This atmospheric boundary separates the troposphere from the stratosphere.
What is the tropopause?
This solution to Einstein’s field equations describes a rotating black hole, characterized by mass and angular momentum, and contains an ergosphere outside the event horizon.
What is the Kerr metric?
This compositional system uses a fixed ordered sequence of all 12 chromatic pitches as the basis for a work, allowing transformations like inversion and retrograde while avoiding a tonal center.
What is twelve-tone serialism?
This principle, named after an Intel co-founder, predicted that the number of transistors on integrated circuits would roughly double every two years.
What is Moore’s Law?