The use of biological organisms to clean up an environment
Bioremediation
Most common type of color-blindness
What is red-green color blindness?
An event that focuses on interpreting, collecting data, and making conjectures from maps
What is Road Scholar?
F=ma
What is Newton's Second Law?
My favorite Elvis Presley song
Most common type of drainage pattern
Hint:
Dendritic drainage pattern
The full name of RSV
What is Respiratory syncytial (sin-SISH-uhl) virus?
Describes how much light will be intercepted by the mirror
What is aperture?
Optics Event
The transfer of thermal energy by movement of fluid
What is convection?
Elvis Presley's house
What is Graceland?
The 4th largest country in the world that consumes the most energy per capita
What is China?
A swelling of the neck resulting from enlargement of the thyroid gland.
What is a goiter?
What is a common grackle?
Ornithology Event
Hint: The "truss" has the same name as the Chief Justice who presided over Miranda v. Arizona
What is a Warren Truss?
Elvis Presley's rank in the army
What is a sergeant?
A chemical used in aerosol sprays and refrigerants that was banned by the Montreal Protocol for its negative effects on the ozone layer
What are Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
Longest, "growing" stage of hair growth
Hint: the three phases (in no particular order) of hair growth are ______, catagen, and telogen.
What is anagen?
huge, anvil-shaped vertical cloud
What is a cumulonimbus?
HINT: This "truss" has the same name as an actor who plays the role of Andy Dwyer on Parks and Recreation
What is a Pratt Truss?
Elvis Presley's middle name
urbanized areas that experience higher temperatures than outlying areas
What is a heat island?
Low levels of this factor result in Hemophilia A
Hint: The answer is in this form: factor _#_
What is factor VIII?
Flats in D flat minor
What is B double-flat, E flat, A flat, D flat, G flat, C flat, and F flat?
Sound of Music Event (Only in Division B)What is a Yagi-Uda antenna?
Named after Hidetsugu Yagi and Shintaro Uda.
The year that Elvis was born
What is 1935?