Catholic Saints
This saint is the patron saint of animals and is known for his love of nature.
Who is St. Francis of Assisi?
Erie, Pennsylvania, is located along the southern shore of this Great Lake.
What is Lake Erie?
This medical term means an abnormally fast heart rate, usually over 100 beats per minute in an adult at rest.
What is tachycardia?
At Fatima in 1917, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to three shepherd children in this country.
What is Portugal?
A triangle with sides of 3 and 4 units has a hypotenuse of this length.
What is 5 units?
This saint, the mother of St. Augustine, prayed for her son's conversion.
Who is St. Monica?
This Erie state park is famous for its sandy beaches and curved peninsula.
What is Presque Isle State Park?
This term describes difficulty breathing, or the sensation of shortness of breath.
What is dyspnea?
This Polish nun received revelations of Jesus associated with the Divine Mercy devotion.
Who is St. Faustina Kowalska?
This quantity, measured in ohms, equals voltage divided by current.
What is resistance?
Known as the Little Flower, this French Carmelite saint taught the Little Way.
Who is St. Thérèse of Lisieux?
This American naval commander led U.S. forces to victory in the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie.
Who is Oliver Hazard Perry?
This term describes a decrease in the number of circulating platelets.
What is thrombocytopenia?
This French Visitation nun reported apparitions of Jesus that helped spread devotion to His Sacred Heart.
Who is St. Margaret Mary Alacoque?
This calculus operation finds the instantaneous rate of change of a function.
What is differentiation?
This 13th-century Dominican theologian authored the Summa Theologiae.
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas?
This waterfront observation tower, completed in 1996, commemorates Erie's 200-year history.
What is the Bicentennial Tower?
This term describes the coughing up of blood originating from the lower respiratory tract.
What is hemoptysis?
In the Divine Mercy image, the red and pale rays represent these two things, according to St. Faustina's Diary.
What are Blood and Water?
For a simply supported beam with a centered point load of 100 newtons, each support carries this vertical reaction force.
What is 50 newtons upward?
This Jesuit saint co-founded the Society of Jesus with St. Ignatius of Loyola and later served as a missionary in India and Japan.
Who is St. Francis Xavier?
The city of Erie takes its name from this Indigenous people who historically lived along the southern shores of Lake Erie.
Who were the Erie (Eriez) people?
This physical-examination finding is the inspiratory decrease in systolic blood pressure that exceeds 10 mmHg.
What is pulsus paradoxus?
This Jesuit priest became St. Margaret Mary Alacoque's spiritual adviser and helped promote the Sacred Heart devotion.
Who is St. Claude La Colombière?
This dimensionless fluid-mechanics quantity, expressed as density times velocity times characteristic length divided by dynamic viscosity, helps characterize flow regimes.
What is the Reynolds number?