Bonus
In September, Oza et al. claimed to have found spectroscopic evidence of this process occurring on an as-yet undiscovered exomoon of WASP-39 b. For 10 points each:
[10h] Tidal heating drives what phenomenon that can eject volatile gases and liquid water from the interior of a planet or moon?
ANSWER: cryovolcanism [or cryovolcanic activity; prompt on volcanism or volcanic activity]
[10e] This planet’s moon Enceladus is one of two solar system bodies that are known to be cryovolcanically active. Cryovolcanism may be the origin of a methane haze on Titan, another moon of this second-largest gas giant.
ANSWER: Saturn
[10m] Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active solar system body because orbital resonance with the other Galilean moons excites its orbit’s value of this quantity. This quantity ranges from 0 to 1 and is about 0.017 for the Earth’s orbit.
ANSWER: eccentricity [prompt on epsilon or e]
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| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 106 | 18.02 | 97% | 72% | 11% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claremont A | UCLA C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCLA A | UC Irvine | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCLA B | UCSD A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HEM |
| UCLA D | Claremont C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCLA F | Claremont B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| UCSD B | USC B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
| USC A | UC Santa Barbara | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 21.43 | 100% | 100% | 14% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 56% | 11% |
| Florida | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 10 | 22.00 | 100% | 90% | 30% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 78% | 11% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 56% | 0% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 15.00 | 75% | 75% | 0% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 12 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 63% | 0% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 12 | 15.83 | 83% | 67% | 8% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |