Solutions - exciting new escape room format

1. What is a wetland? Ans: A wetland is an area where the soil is full of water, such as swamps, marshes and lakes
2. What group of organisms are all usually found in wetlands? Ans: Reeds, otters, newts and herons
3. What human actions can be harmful to wetland ecosystems? Ans: Changing the natural flow of water in the wetland ecosystem
4. Which description of the role of producers, consumers or decomposers is correct? Ans: Producers - organisms that make their own food
5. What adaptation is helpful for plants to survive in wetlands? Ans: Long stems and shallow roots to deal with lower oxygen levels

• Click only on what you should wear in the lab - Safety goggles
• Click only on the pH level that is basic - 12
• Click only on the reversible change - Heating ice so it turns into water

• Which of these pictures show a place in a very humid region? Trees (Left)
• Which of these measures wind speed? Anemometer (Right)
• Which of these represents a surface with high albedo (High reflectivity of radiation)? Reflective rocks (Right)
• Which of these actions contribute most harmfully to the greenhouse effect? Pumping gasoline (Left)
• Which of these pictures show cirrus clouds? Cirrus Clouds (Right)

• Need a resistor as no resistor is used
• With two batteries, need a second light bulb
• Have two light bulbs with two batteries and one resistor so only a wire can be added

Wetlands & Ecosystems - first number is 7

Classroom Chemistry - second number is 0

Weather Watch - third number is 9

Electric Circuits - fourth number is 2

Final code is 7092

Giordano's slap shot travels 20 meter in 0.44 seconds. The formula to calculate speed is distance divided by time. 20 meter divided by 0.44 seconds equal to 45.45 m/s. Now we need to convert this to km/h. There are 1,000 meters in each kilometer and there are 3,600 seconds in each hour (60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in each hour). We need to divide the numerator by 1,000 and the denominator by 3,600. The resulting answer is 164 km/h. That is faster than any legal speed limit in Alberta.

How Mike Vernon pull the trick off is the ice is really frozen Sprite. The bottle of Sprite was actually water since no one tasted it before they left the room. The frozen Sprite would melt at room temperature over a day and become a liquid. When matter changes from a solid state to a liquid state, it is called melting. The other changes of physical states are condensation (gas to liquid), evaporation (liquid to gas) and freezing (liquid to solid).

The key is the use of halogen light bulbs. Halogen light bulbs require heating a filament to produce light. To find out which light is on which floor, Johnny would turn the first switch on for fifteen minutes then turn it off. He would turn on the second switch and leave it on. He will not touch the third switch. He would then go upstairs. Whichever light that is off but is warm to the touch will belong to the first switch. The light that is turned on belong to the second switch. The light that is off and cool to the touch will belong to the third switch. 

Operating halogen and incandescent lights requires alot of energy. On the other hand, LED (Light Emitting Diode) produces light when electrons move around within its semiconductor structure and thus uses much less energy. Make sure your home is using LED lights to conserve energy and help make our planet greener.

There are three main types of rocks: igneous rocks form when molten rock cools and solidifies, sedimentary rocks are formed by accumulation of small particles on the floor of bodies of water, metamorphic rocks are formed from existing rock types but subjected to heat and pressure which causes physical or chemical change to the rock. Based on the note:

Red Rock = S

Yellow Rock = M

Green Rock = S

Blue Rock = I

Purple Rock = I

Pink Rock = M

• Based on the xylophone, the note with the lowest pitch is C.
• The three primary colors are red, blue and yellow. Both red and blue have two notes on the xylophone so the answer is G (yellow).
• The second note (what we just solved) is G and one pitch higher is A
• The second note is G and one pitch lower is F
• The answer is CGAF

The strongest two dimensional shape is the triangle as it has the fewest number of sides, its angles are fixed and its rigid design. The answer is TRIANGLE.

Unscramble common building materials:

WOOD, PLASTIC, PAPER

Take the second letters and the letter D which gets you: O, L A, D

Unscramble this to get the answer LOAD.

A food chain shows how living things get food and energy from one organism to another. The list of magnets are Fox (1), Rabbit (2), Tiger (3) and Carrot (4). The food chain would become the Carrot (4), eaten by the Rabbit (2), eaten by the Fox (1) and finally eaten by the Tiger (3). The code is 4213.

You have collected the letters:

E from the Set of Rocks

T from Animal, Plant and Environment Magnets

S from CD and Xylophone

M from Building Materials

Unscramble these to get the secret code STEM.

When white light goes through a prism, the light is bent and the different colors that make up the white light becomes separated. The light shows up in the order of its particular wavelength. The order from longest wavelength to shortest is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. In science, we use the acronym ROYGBIV, which is the 7 letter code (capital letters)

All of these words: drag, lift, air, gravity, Bernoulli, thrust, pressure and aircraft are related to FLIGHT (capital letters)

First, you will need to make these into fractions. Since the common denominator is four, we will first make all of the fractions out of four. The fractions are: 2/4, 1/4, 1/4, 3/4, 4/4 and 1/4. If we sum all of these up, we get 12/4. If we simplify the equation, it becomes 3.

To find the next location, we need to solve these equations. The one with the answer of three will be the next location.

32 - 16 - 4 = 12

32 + 5 - 22 = 15

32 - 29 + 1 = 4

32 - 26 - 3 = 3

So the next clue is in the "recycle bin" (lower case with a space)

Vertebrates are animals with backbones. The follow animals are vertebrates:

Penguin, Elephant, Owl, Nighthawk

If you take the first letter of each vertebrate, you get P, E, O and N. By rearranging them, you get the word OPEN (capital letters)

The words "periodic" and "table" are bolded on the note, which provides the hint you need to use the Periodic Table of Elements. The four elements have the following symbols representing them on the Periodic Table: Nitrogen = N, Oxygen = O, Beryllium = Be, Argon = Ar. Putting all of these together, the code is "NOBEAR" (all capitals, no space)

The easiest way to solve this is knowing this is a right angle triangle (90 degrees in one angle). The formula for the area of a triangle = 1/2 x base x height. The base and height are 70 and 55 (or 55 and 70, it does not impact the answer). So the area = 1/2 x 70 x 55 = 1925

To find the locker number, the acceleration of gravity on Earth is 9.8 meters per second. By removing the decimal, the locker number is 98.

To find the four letter code, you will need to identify the work and select the letter in the word the number is corresponding to. The answer to the statements are:

Orbit

Jupiter

Mercury

Sun

If you take the 1st letter of Orbit, 3rd letter of Jupiter, 2nd letter of Mercury and 3rd letter of Sun, you get OPEN as your code.

Bobby was the one who ate the pie. Bobby said he just came in from shoveling snow and immediately saw the pie. Given it is very cold outside and he wears glasses, his glasses would fog up when he came inside a warm home and would not be able to see the pie.

In Science, this is known as "condensation". Condensation is when humidity or water vapor lands on a cold surface. The water vapor turns into tiny drops of liquid, forming a film we see as fog. That is where the term "Fogging up your glasses" comes from.

The easiest way to solve this is solving the division question first. Given you can only use each digit once, the only possible division answers you can use are 8 / 4 = 2, 8 / 2 = 4, 6 / 3 = 2 and 6 / 2 = 3. Now it is a trial and error process and try each equation and see if you can solve the puzzle.

Here are the highest recorded speeds:

Maglev Train                                 - 603 km/h

Commercial Car (Jesko Absolut) - 531 km/h

Peregrine Falcon (Diving Speed) - 389 km/h

Maglev Train is the fastest.

To get the key out of the tube, pour Alex's soda into the tube. As the key is made of a light plastic material, it will float in liquid.