AguaClara Processes
Team Leads
SpongeBob
Food and Drink
Order of Magnitude
100
The particles that form in the water as a result of the flocculation process
What is a floc?
100
What one ocean said to the other
What is “Nothing, they’re oceans?”
100
How many fingers SpongeBob has
What is 8?
100
The spiciest pepper in the world
What is Pepper X?
100
The circumference of the Earth in miles
What is 10⁵ (25,000 miles)?
200
How particles get caught in the sand filters
What is they adsorb to the sides of the filter pores (sand)?
200
The country Dora is a citizen of
What is Taiwan?
200
From left to right, the order of the houses in SpongeBob’s neighborhood
What is Patrick’s, Squidward’s, and SpongeBob’s?
200
The reason why Beer is fizzy
What is fermentation produces carbon dioxide?
200
The average number of licks to the center of a tootsie pop
What is 10² (~350 licks)?
300
The EPA and WHO drinking water standards for maximum turbidity
What is 0.3 NTU average (or 1 NTU maximum)?
300
When and where TLLs are
What is 1-2pm on Mondays in Sage Atrium/Cafe?
300
The name of Plankton's wife
What is Karen?
300
Costco's best selling food item
What is the rotisserie chicken?
300
The number of meters in a light-year (±1)
What is 10¹⁵ (9.46 * 10¹⁵ m)?
400
The reason why particles of different sizes won’t collide with each other
What is shear flow or boundary layer?
400
The Cornell organization Kayla affiliates with the most (after AguaClara of course)
What is the National Society of Black Engineers?
400
The US state Sandy comes from
What is Texas?
400
The water footprint of growing a single almond (anywhere in the range)
What is 1-4 gallons of water.
400
The number of water molecules in an olympic swimming pool (±1)
What is 10³¹ (Vpool = 2,500,000 L, ρwater = 1000 g/L, Mwater = 18.0 g/mol, Avogadro number = 6.022 * 10²³)?
500
The two predominant forces acting on flocs in the clarifier to cause suspension and floc filter creation
What are gravity and drag?
500
The item that makes up Camden’s most prized collection
What are flashlights (or Pokemon cards)?
500
The original name for SpongeBob
What is SpongeBoy?
500
The animal products that make up a hotdog
What are meat trimmings primarily from pigs, cows, and chickens (including fat trimmings, snout, bone, cartilage, and more)?
500
The number of liquid cows that could fit into the sun (±1)
What is 10²⁷ (Vsun = 1.4 * 10²⁷ m3, Vcow = 0.8 m3)?