Water Quality
Rocks & Minerals
Botany
ID ID ID
Trivia About Us!
100
What is a coastal plain estuary?
An estuary that is formed when rising sea levels flood river valleys. It os often shallow, sediment-rich, and associated with spits, barrier islands, and sandbars
100
What is tenacity?
Describes a mineral or rock's physical resistance to breaking, crushing, bending, or deforming under stress
100
Define gymnosperms
"Naked seeds": produces seeds that are exposed on surface or in cones
100
Bumphead parrotfish
100
How many years have each of us been on the team? (counting this season)
Chuheng: 4 years
Chloe: 3 years
Vickie: 2 years
200
What is the scientific name of this insect and how is it able to do what it is doing currently?
Gerridae and it is able to "walk" or "float" on water because of its microscopic hydrophobic hairs and surface tension.
200
What does an aphanitic texture indicate about cooling time? If a rock has 48% silica, it is classified as a __ rock.
The magma cooled rapidly at Earth's surface; Mafic
200
What weather event is needed for gametes between two mates to interact?
Rain
200
what is it a variety of?
Sapphire; Corundum
200
What is Chuheng's birth month?
April
300
Name all the organisms that are found globally (on the rules) that indicate overfishing.
butterfly fish, COTS, grouper, lobster, long-spined black sea urchins, moray eel, parrotfish, snapper, sweetlips, and triton
300
What is a solid solution series? What chemical characteristic is required for substitution to occur?
A range of composition between two or more mineral endmembers where atoms or ions can substitute for one another in a specific crystal structure without changing that structure.
Most have similar atomic/ionic radii or the same ionic charge
300
What organism could Tayloria spores use that will lead them to nearby fecal matter sources?
Flies
300
Phyllite
300
What were each of our favorite SciOly competitions?
Chuheng: probably all (go follow Brooklyn Sycamores on IG for competition vlogs)
Vickie: SOUP/States 26
Chloe: Columbia/States 2026 🤤🤤🏆🏆🍜🍜
400
What is the name of the deepest known place in the ocean? What ocean zone does it reside in and where is it located?
The Challenger Deep located in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, near Guam. It is in the Hadalpelagic zone.
400
Sinkholes form as a result of what type of chemical weathering? How exactly do they form?
Carbonation
Calcite is a major component of limestone. Acidic groundwater dissolves limestone, removing enough calcite to form caves.
400
Hornworts cannot naturally fix nitrogen. They can readily take up cyanobacteria which can. These cyanobacteria live within its tissues. What other community of organisms similar to Bryophytes is analogous to this behavior? What makes up the protective tissue of this community?
Lichen; Fungal Hyphae
400
ID this organism and where it is found.
Grouper found globally.
400
Who is Chloe's partner? (trick question)
No one probably
..tiffany from L.A.
500
What are Ahermatypic Corals and what is special about its relationship with zooxanthellae? What is zooxanthellae?
Ahermatypic corals are corals that are solitary or form small colonies They often lack zooxanthellae and do not help build reefs.
500
What is the precipitation sequence of minerals in evaporites?
Carbonates, Sulfates, Halides, Potassium & Magnesium salts
500
Why are embyrophytes and virdiplantae monophyletic?
They each consist of a single common ancestor and all of its evolutionary descendants.
Members share unique features from a primary endosymbiotic event with cyanobacteria, such as chlorophylls a and b, lack of phycobilins, and cellulose in their cell walls.
500
Albite
500
What two regions are Vickie from in China? (give specific names)
Kaiping & Xinhui