History of Aquatic Science
$100:Who created the design of the lateen sail?
Answer: The Arabic and Persian sailors
$100: What is the term for water's ability to stabilize temperatures?
Answer: What is specific heat?
$100: American scientific agency within the US department of Commerce that focuses on the conditions of the oceans, major water, and the atmosphere.
Answer: NOAA
$100: What is the pH of pure water?
Answer: What is 7?
$100: Why does ice float?
Answer: Because it is less dense than liquid water due to the trapped air between the molecules.
$200: Who was the first to invent circumnavigation
Answer: Who is Ferdinand Magellan
$200: What is water's most common state?
Answer: What is liquid?
$200: What does NASA stand for?
Answer: What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
$200: How does water's polarity affect its properties?
Answer: It creates partial charges that allow for hydrogen bonding and solubility.
$200: What is specific heat?
Answer: The amount of heat required to change the temperature of a substance.
$300: Who was the Father of Oceanography
Matthew Fontaine Maury
$300: Name one property of water that supports life.
Answer: What is cohesion?
$300: What does TPWD stand for?
Answer: What is the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department?
$300: What is the pH of San Antonio's water
Answer: the pH of our water is 7-8
$300: How does water stabilize temperatures?
Answer: By absorbing or releasing heat slowly.
$400: Who discovered the Marianas Trench
Answer: Sir Charles Wyville Thomson on the British Royal Navy's HMS Challenger expedition in 1875
$400: What does it mean for a molecule to be polar?
Answer: It means there is an uneven distribution of charges, resulting in positive and negative ends.
$500: What does ROV stand for in a research context?
Answer: What is Remotely Operated Vehicle?
$400: How does a buffer affect a solution
Answer: It creates and weaker base or a weaker acid.
$400: How does sweating cool the body?
Answer: Through evaporative cooling, where sweat absorbs heat as it evaporates.
$500: Who created a chart of the Gulf Stream
Answer: Ben Franklin
$500: certain insects have the ability to stand on top of ponds or lakes. Which property of water allow this phenomenon to occur.
Answer: surface tension
$500: What does ACE stand for?
Answer: What is the Army Corps of Engineers?
$500: Describe how water interacts with ionic compounds.
Answer: Water molecules surround and separate ions,
$500: How does water's ability to absorb heat contribute to Earth's climate?
Answer: It helps distribute heat around the planet, influencing weather patterns