chamber
Chamber often means an enclosed room. This topic is part of Architecture within Arts & Culture. This page currently draws on 40 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
chamber trivia questions
A chamber is another word for what kind of space?
Answer: Room
Bonus fact: Chamber often means an enclosed room.
In a legislature, the House and Senate are examples of what?
Answer: Chambers
Bonus fact: A bicameral legislature has two chambers.
What does bicameral literally indicate about a legislature?
Answer: Two chambers
Bonus fact: Bi- means two.
The population totals from the U.S. census are used to reapportion seats in which chamber of Congress?
Answer: House of Representatives
Bonus fact: House seats are redistributed among the states based on decennial census population counts.
How many chambers does a normal human heart have?
Answer: 4
Bonus fact: The human heart has two atria and two ventricles.
What causes the sand in an hourglass to move from the upper chamber to the lower one?
Answer: Gravity
Bonus fact: Gravity pulls the grains through the narrow opening.
Why does the flow rate of dry sand in a well-designed hourglass stay fairly steady even as the upper chamber empties?
Answer: Granular pressure near the outlet changes little with fill height
Bonus fact: Granular materials transmit force differently from liquids, so pressure at the outlet does not simply rise with column height.
A magma chamber stores molten rock where?
Answer: Below a volcano
Bonus fact: Magma chambers are underground reservoirs.
What can happen if pressure builds greatly in a magma chamber?
Answer: Volcanic eruption
Bonus fact: Gas and magma pressure can fracture surrounding rock.
If much magma leaves a shallow chamber, the ground above may collapse to form what?
Answer: Caldera
Bonus fact: Large calderas often form after major eruptions.
Which chamber pumps oxygen-rich blood into the aorta?
Answer: Left ventricle
Bonus fact: The left ventricle has the thickest wall.
Which chamber receives oxygen-poor blood returning from the body?
Answer: Right atrium
Bonus fact: The venae cavae empty into the right atrium.