Health & Safety
This is the regulatory agency of the US Dept of Labor that creates and enforces safety standards
What is OSHA?
The percentage of the Earth's surface that is covered by water (in all states of matter).
What is 71%?
The publication of "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson played a large role in instigating the creation of which federal agency?
What is the EPA?
The approximate age of the Earth.
What is 4.54 billion years old?
What is a Greenland Shark?
This is the federal agency that conducts research and makes recommendations to prevent workplace injuries, such as exposure limits for toxic chemicals.
What is NIOSH?
The process by which ice converts directly to water vapor.
What is sublimation?
The organization that develops and tests various materials, systems, and services for use in manufacturing, construction, and more.
What is ASTM?
The chemical name for quartz sand.
What is Silocon dioxide (SiO2)?
This metal was used by the Romans for plumbing and to sweeten their wine.
What is Lead (Plumbum, Pb)?
This president signed the Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The fact that ice is an inorganic solid with a defined crystal structure means that it can be defined as what?
What is a mineral?
This critically important Act for public health was initially vetoed by Nixon but passed by a Senate override in 1972.
What is the Clean Water Act?
This section of the Earth's interior generates the geomagnetic field.
What is the outer core?
This MLB team has the second-most world series wins.
Who are the Cardinals? (11, Yankees 27!)
This respirator provides a supply of breathable air in an atmosphere that would otherwise be immediately dangerous to life and health.
What is a SCBA?
A water-bearing layer of rock or overburden that will yield-water in a usable quantity that is overlain by an impermeable layer.
What is a confined aquifer?
This highly hazardous substance was banned outright in the United States in 1989, with a partial allowance for specific uses being granted in 1991.
What is Asbestos?
This crystal was instrumental for discovering the age of the Earth.
What is zircon?
This bird has the fastest recorded flight speed, topping out at over 200 mph!
What is the Peregrine Falcon?
This is the Title number in the Code of Federal Regulations for Labor and thus OSHA.
What is Title 29 CFR?
Freshwater has a TDS of less than 1,000 mg/L. This type of water has a TDS of roughly 35,000 mg/L.
What is sea water?
What is Yellowstone?
This northeastern island marks the location of the furthest southern extent of the last continental glaciers in the United States.
What is Long Island?
In the 1980 Olympics, the United States defeated the Soviet Union in this world-famous hockey game, more commonly known as what?
What is the "Miracle on Ice"?