Quantum is a Latin word that means 'how much'. So a quantum of energy is a specific amount of energy. Light sources such as candles or lasers shoot out (or emit) light in bits called photons. Photons are like packets.
Confidence votes 1.0K. The five boroughs of New York City are Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island. All areas of New York State have county names, but New York City also has borough (boro) names for its five counties. Two of the borough names are the same as the county names and three are different.
New York's waterways, including more than 7,500 lakes and ponds, 70,000 miles of rivers and streams and thousands of miles of coastline, count 165 species of fish. In terms of its size, New York is the country's 27th-largest state, covering an area of 54,475 square miles (35 million acres). Of this area, 47,126 square miles (87 percent) is made up of land, while the remaining 7,429 square miles comprises water.