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Tahoe Acronyms
100
Tahoe has been rumored to house an underwater graveyard as well as this underwater "monster"
Who is Tahoe Tessie?
100
This is the primary natural process responsible for creating the Grand Canyon.
What is erosion?
100
When playing the 3D movie in the Tahoe Science Center, should you lose the player interface, press this button.
What is the 'g' key? ('G' for guide)
100
Normal faulting lifted these two mountain ranges in the east and the west of the Tahoe Basin
What is the Carson Range and the Sierra Nevada?
100
Presence of these two nutrients stimulates algal growth in Lake Tahoe.
What are nitrogen and phosphorous?
200
This person famously said it was possible to see the gills opening and closing on a trout 84 feet deep in Lake Tahoe.
Who is Mark Twain?
200
The percentage, to the tenth, of fresh water on earth.
What 2.5%?
200
This percentage of the Tahoe basin is U.S> Forest Service land.
What is 70%?
200
Slow moving bodies of ice carve U-shaped valleys down Tahoe's West Shore.
What are glaciers?
200
The most recent location where researchers at TERC just finished laying down Asian clam barriers.
What is Emerald Bay?
300
The 1960 Olympics at Squaw Valley were unique for being the first Olympics to be ___________, making them accessible to people nationwide.
What is televised?
300
Water transforming froma solid state to a gaseous state.
What is sublimation?
300
These are the 3 R's of Defensible Space.
What are Removal, Reduction, and Replacement?
300
These three normal faults run through the Basin.
What are the West Tahoe Fault, the Stateline Fault, and the Incline Fault?
300
Water clarity depth is usually greatest during this season.
What is winter?
400
George Whittell of the Thunderbird Lodge is credited for protecting this many miles of Lake Tahoe's East Shore.
What is 27 miles?
400
On a topographic map, the amount of elevation change between each line.
What is the contour interval?
400
The one island located within Lake Tahoe.
What is Fannette Island?
400
The McKinney bay landslide produces a tsunami, followed by this type of wave.
What are seiche waves?
400
The research vessel John Le Conte is named after an original faculty member and former president of this university.
What is the University of California, Berkeley?
500
In an attempt top extort $3 million, John Birges Sr. planted a bomb which exploded in this South Lake casino in 1980.
What is Harvey's Casino?
500
"That which scratches is harder than that which has been scratched" is a principle of this test.
What is the Moh's hardness test?
500
Before the name "Tahoe" was introduced, as of 1853 the lake was commonly know as this.
What Lake Bigler?
500
This enormous underwater landslide sent tons of boulders, rocks, soil to the lake bottom.
What is the McKinney Bay Landslide?
500
The Lake mixes fully from top to bottom on a cycle of approximately this number years…
What is approximately every 4 years?