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This transcontinental country spans 11 time zones.
What is Russia?
This device is used to collect aquatic species with its bottom edge held down by weights and its top by buoys.
What is a seine net?
This is the chemical formula for sodium chloride.
What is NaCl?
This is the deepest ocean on our planet.
What is the Pacific?
This is the fifth planet from the sun.
What is Jupiter?
This river forms part of the boundary between Mexico and the United States.
What is the Rio Grande?
The Winkler method is a method to determine this property of water.
What is dissolved oxygen?
This person published the first classification of the elements on a periodic table.
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
This is approximately the percentage of Earth's surface covered with water (round to the nearest tenth).
What is 70%?
The tilt of the Earth and its revolution around the Sun cause this tri-monthly phenomenon.
What are the seasons?
This is the capital of New Zealand.
What is Wellington?
When you want to record the wind speed in the field, you would use this tool.
What is an anemometer?
This group of elements, known as Group 18, is famous for being nonreactive.
What are the noble gases?
These powerful spinning ocean storms are known as a hurricane in the atlantic, but this is in the pacific.
What is a Typhoon?
This is a collection of ice, gas, and dust, with a tail that can reach millions of miles long.
What is a comet?
At 147,040 square miles, and containing a piece of Yellowstone, this state is the fourth largest in the USA.
What is Montana
Silver nitrate titration can be used to determine what property of water?
What is Salinity?
This is the energy required to remove an electron from an atom.
What is ionization energy?
The oceanic seafloor is mainly made up of this type of rock that comes from volcanic activity.
What is basalt?
NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab puts astronauts in a simulation of this condition experienced during space flight.
What is zero gravity?
This city is known as the Glass Capital of the World.
What is Toledo?
This device measures the absorbance of particular wavelengths of light using a solution.
What is a colorimeter?
These two letters are not used in any chemical symbol.
What are Q and J?
This is the occurrence of water rocking back and forth and “sloshing” from one shore to another due to an earthquake or strong winds.
What is a seiche?
A photo of Earth taken by this space probe prompted Carl Sagan to anoint planet Earth with the name "pale blue dot."
What is Voyager 1?