It Pays to Increase Your Jargon Power
With Dr. Egghead

1. effective residence time

a. The amount of time a child continues to live at home before going off to college.
b.The amount of time a medical intern puts in before becoming a doctor.
c. The amount of time one has to live in a state to obtain residency.
d. The amount of time it takes for about 63 percent of the molecules of a chemical to be removed from the atmosphere.

2) general circulation model

a. A diagram of the human circulatory system.
b. A map used by librarians to track the routing of books that are checked out.
c. The Department of Defense plan for moving high-ranking officers from post to post.
d. A model of climate that uses certain assumptions about the workings of the atmospheric, terrestrial, and aquatic environments to explain changes greenhouse gas concentrations and estimate the climatic changes that might result.

3) combined-cycle plants

a. House plants that thrive best when placed near multi-cycle washing machines.
b. A genetically engineered cross between a bicycle and a plant.
c. Factories that produce both mountain bikes and road bikes.
d. Natural gas-fired plants that use internal combustion engines combined with steam turbines to generate electricity. The natural gas is burned in a gas turbine or reciprocating gas engine and the hot exhaust gases are used to produce steam which drives a steam turbine.

4) insolation

a. The practice of applying an extra strip of material inside a shoe for protection and comfort.
b. A kind of transcendental meditation.
c. The art of being regularly rude and insolent.
d. The amount of sunlight reaching an area, usually expressed in watts per square meter per day.

5) solar constant

a. A sun bather who never leaves the beach.
b. In math, a fixed value in an equation denoted by the symbol: and pronounced "Ra."
c. What you experience in the Arctic Circle during the height of summer
d. A new brand name for fancy sunglasses.
e. The rate at which energy is received from the sun just outside the earth's atmosphere on a surface perpendicular to the sun's rays. Approximately equal to 1.36 kW per square meter.

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Answers:
1. d
2. d
3. d
4. d
5. e