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Zander Chavez · 27問 · 2年前

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What caused the pollution of the Queen River?

Mining

What was Mt. Lyell utilized for?

Copper mining

How are DNA samples collected to determine if life is still in the Queen River?

By water samples

What causes the river's pollution?

Runoff of acid mine drainage

What did the smelting (cooking) of the rocks cause?

Sulfuric acid rain

Which of the streams flows like orange toxic pumpkin soup?

Glover Creek

What did the last five kilometers look like on the most polluted river in Australia?

Like a clean river

Of the samples taken on the journey, how many showed signs of life in the water?

James Balog was 25 when he was finishing his masters degree in geomorphology, but he wasn’t interested in working as a geologist, so instead he became a self-taught what?

Photographer

The massive recession of what glacier really provoked James Balog to document climate change through ice?

Solheim Glacier, Iceland

Plants and animals are going extinct at a rate that is _____________ than it was 1,000 years ago.

100 times faster

At Camera #10 in Alaska, that glacier had receded _____ since 1984 and thinned the height of the Empire State Building.

11 miles

Cryoconite is a glacial dust that is a mixture of what?

Natural dust and atmospheric soot from burning fossil fuels

When they returned in 2009, just 2 years after last documenting it, the team could barely recognize the landscape around Solheim Glacier due to what?

Deflation

What is the most productive glacier in the Northern Hemisphere where the team setup the great glacial watch where they sat for days hoping to catch a calving event?

Illulissat Glacier, Greenland

Of the 1400 glaciers studied in Yukon Territory how many got bigger?

What was the duration time of the glacial calving event the team caught on film?

75 minutes

It took 100 years for the glacier to retreat 8 miles; what distance did it retreat between 2001 and 2009 (8 years)?

9 miles

Did you watch the Chasing Ice documentary

Yes

What day are we on in Hurricane Season

147

What is the name of the hurricane in the Pacific that just made landfall?

Otis

There is a hurricane following the track of the one that just hit Mexico.

True

What category was Otis expected to be on landfall?

Florida may have more late hurricane seasons.

True

What category was Otis when it actually hit land?

What wind speed did Otis reach?

165mph

What was Otis' wind speed at 1am?

50mph

Hurricane Otis has caused flash flood warnings as far away as where?

Texas

What year were the winter Olympics held in Tahoe?

1960

What rating was the Alpine Meadows given for avalanche hazards?

Class A (highest)

What is the major creator of avalanches?

Wind-driven snow

What about the climate in Tahoe contributes to avalanches?

Fluctuating weather

Is there anywhere in the world that is as dangerous for avalanches as Alpine Meadows?

Were avalanches ever used as military actions to destroy enemies during war?

Yes

In 1976 how many people died in an avalanche in Beaver Bowl Alpine Meadows?

How many starting zones for avalanches are at Alpine?

Over 300

What was the highest overall windspeed the night before the avalanche?

120mph

What is the potential of survival after 30 min buried in an avalanche?

Very low

How fast can avalanches move?

Up to 100mph

How many different avalanche areas linked together to create the deadly March 1982 avalanche?

Who located and signaled where Anna was buried?

Bridget the dog

How many people died in the Alpine avalanche of 1982?

7 people

A coral individual is really made up of thousands of small structures called what?

Polyps

Fill in the blank: Coral bleaching itself is a stress response much like what in humans?

a fever

Corals bleach if the temperature of the water changes just a little bit, and then they are likely to starve themselves to death.

True

The first global-scale mass coral bleaching event occurred when?

1990s

The largest structure ever made by life on Earth is what?

Australia's Great Barrier Reef

Fill in the blank The more __________ you have in the atmosphere the greater amount of heat you have trapped by the Earth.

Carbon dioxide

What percent of heat trapped by Earth's atmosphere is absorbed by the ocean?

93%

The scientists observed one of the rarest events in nature happening, as the corals were dying, people were obliviously doing what above them?

Partying in a floating restaurant

If you take just the average of projected sea level temperature change of near future, coral reefs will be ok.

False

The filmmakers presented their data to an absolutely packed room at the Hawaii conference in 2016.

False

What percent of the Great Barrier Reef died just in 2016 when the filmmakers were there?

29%

Coral bleaching and fatalities are a worldwide problem.

True

Which of the following can trigger a tsunami?

All of these

90% of the world's earthquakes occur where?

Pacific Ring of Fire

Second to Hawaii, what is the most Tsunami prone location in the Pacific?

Japan

Tsunami waves can divide and rebuild attacking an island multiple times due to what?

The wrap-around effect

What was the run-up of the 2004 Indonesian Sumatra earthquake?

35m (115ft)

The 2004 Indonesian Sumatra tsunami was triggered by what magnitude earthquake?

9.3

According to geologist Dr. Goff, what caused the unique third tsunami wave to strike Galle?

The wave was bounced back off the Maldives

What caused the Lituya Bay ysnumai to be so much larger than the open ocean tsunami?

A landslide displaced a significant portion of the mountain at the edge of the bay

How high was the Lituya Bay tsunami run-up?

1,740ft

How was the Lituya Bay wave able to larger and higher than the volume of water should have produced?

An air pocket behind the wave

Giant landslides that can cause megatsunamis and culture-ending events seem to occur when?

During warming climate

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