Animals Flashcards
Branta Bernicla bird
Brent Goose
Branta leucopsis
Barnacle Goose
Anser Caerulescens bird
Snow Goose
Anser Anser is what type of goose
Greylag Goose
Cygnus Olor exact type of bird
Mute Swan
Cygnus Columbianus bird named after a British illustrator
Bewick’s Swan
Cygnus Cygnus is what exact type of swan?
Whooper swan
Tadorna Tadorna bird
Shelduck
Aix Galericulata bird
Mandarin duck
Spatula Clypeata bird
Shoveler
Mareca Penelope bird
Wigeon
Anas Platyrhynchos bird
Mallard
Anas crecca bird
Teal
Aythya Americana bird
Redhead duck
Somateria Mollissima bird
Eider
Eider’s alternative name is named after which Saint?
St Cuthbert’s Duck
Histrionicus histrionicus is bird named after a character in Commedia dell-Arte
Harlequin
In North America what type of sea duck is known as Lords and Ladies?
Harlequin
Melanitta is what type of sea duck?
Scoter
Bucephala Clangula bird
Goldeneye
Oxyura jamaicensis type of duck
Ruddy Duck
Lagopus lagopus - also willow ptarmigan in pheasant family
Red Grouse
Lagopus muta - official bird for Canadian territory of Nunavut
Ptarmigan
Tetrao Urogallus, largest of the grouses
Capercaillie - also known as cock-of-the-woods
Lyrurus Tetrix what large game bird
Black Grouse
Perdix perdix - sometimes known as hun.
Grey partridge
Golden/Chinese/rainbow: chrysolophus pictus what bird
Pheasant
Chrysolophus amherstiae named after British naturalist who lived in India sent bird to London in 1828.
Lady Amherst’s Pheasant
Phasianus colchicus meaning of the Black Sea
Pheasant
Coturnix coturnix bird
Quail
Chordeiles Minor bird
Common Nighthawk
Caprimulgus europaeus bird
Nightjar - name comes from goatsucker
Chaetura pelagica is a swift with which house part preceding word swift
Chimney Swift
Apus apus bird
Swift
Otis tarda - extinct in uk but 40 now on Salisbury plains
Great Bustard
Tetrax tetrax bird genus name from Greek and refers to game bird mentioned by Aristophanes
Little Bustard
Cuculus Canorus bird - Aristotle aware of tale that this bird turned to hawks in winter
Cuckoo
Gowk is the old name for which bird in northern England
Cuckoo
On hearing the first cuckoo in spring symphonic poem from Norway composed By which British composer
Frederick Delius
Martlet in heraldry refers to which bird
Swift (formerly known as martlets)
Latin for “after this therefore because of this”, temporal sequence implies causation. x happened, then y happened, therefore x caused y.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc
Latin argumentum ad lapidem - fallacy dismissing a claim as absurd without demonstrating proof for its absurdity
Appeal to the stone
Named after star wars character, in a jury trial what legal strategy is where criminal defence lawyer tries to confuse jury rather than refute case of prosecutor?
Chewbacca Defence
What fallacy referring to state of American is informal fallacy committed when differences in data are ignored but similarities are overemphasised?
Texas sharpshooter fallacy
Which type of galaxies designated S0, consist of bright central bulge surrounded by extended disk like structure but unlike spiral galaxies have no visible spiral structures and not actively forming stars?
Lenticular galaxies
What state is Yerkes Observatory founded by George Ellery Hale in 1892?
Wisconsin
What refracting telescope built in 1888 named after the richest man of california when he died? Now third biggest refracting telescope in world.
James Lick telescope
Name of astronomical observatory in LA, california contains Hooker telescope and 60 inch telescope.
Mount Wilson Observatory
Name of observatory at San Diego, owned by CIT inn namesake mountain range: contains 200 inch Hale telescope.
Palomar Observatory
Observatory in Hawaii located on big island of Hawaii on a volcano?
Mauna Kea Observatories
Name of astronomical observatory operated by European southern observatory located in atacama desert in chile south of Antofagasta. very large telescope (VLT) largest telescope there.
Paranal Observatory
Saltpetre nickname for what chemical compound
Potassium Nitrate KNO3
Port city of northern chile, has highest GDP per capita in chile, known for mining lithium at the moment but copper, silver in past. Fought over with Bolivia in war of the pacific (1879-83).
Antofagasta
Who became first woman to win Turing Prize in 2006?
Frances Allen
Alan Perlis was the first recipient of which prize in 1966?
Turing Prize
TCP/IP stands for
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
Joint winners of Turing Prize in 2004, design and implementation of internet’s basic TCP/IP protocols.
Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn
2008 winner of Turing Prize: she won for contributions to practical programming language and system design
Barbara Liskov (Frances Allen won in 2006)
2022 fields medal female only second done on sphere packing in 8 dimensions
Maryna Viazovska
Winner of Fields Medal 2014 being first Latin American and lusophone to do it? Brazilian
Artur Avila
Streptopelia Turtur bird
Turtle Dove
Type of bird known name from harsh cry in Latin “to scrape”
Rail
Rallus aquaticus bird
Water Rail
Crex crex bird
Corncrake
Porzana porzana bird, name derived from Venetian terms for small types of this bird
Spotted Crake
Small four letter word preceding RAil sometimes for Porzana Carolina
Sora
Gallinula chloropus bird also known as swamp chicken
Moorhen
Fulica atra bird largely black except for white bill and frontal shield (as bald as a …)
Coot
Fulica Americana, also known as mud hen or pouldeau, commonly mistaken for ducks.
American Coot
Porphyrio porphyrio bird known as sultana bird from French
Western swamphen
Zapornia Parva bird parva means small
Little Crake
Grus Grus bird, types within this general class include Demoiselle, Siberian, sandhill and the brolga (Australian).
Crane
Antigone canadensis
Sandhill Crane
Reptile: vipera berus berus
European Adder
Reptile: natrix helvetica helvetica
Barred grass snake
Reptile: coronella austriaca austriaca
Smooth snake
Reptile: anguis fragilis sensu stricto
Slow worm
Zootoca vivipara reptile
Viviparous or common lizard
Lacerta agilis reptile
Sand lizard
Reptile: dermochelys coriacea
Leatherback sea turtle
Reptile: caretta caretta
Loggerhead sea turtle
What is the largest of all living turtles and called sometimes Luth or lute turtle
Leatherback Sea Turtle
Reptile: chelonia mydas
Green sea turtle
Three stringed traditional japanese instrument meaning three strings
Shamisen
Eretmochelys Imbricata reptile
Hawksbill sea turtle
Natrix natrix reptile
Grass snake
Zamenis longissimus reptile named after Greek god of healing
Aesculapian snake
Symbol of healing and medicine, rod wielded by god of healing and snake wrapped around it
Rod of Asclepius
Latin for heralds wand for staff carried by Hermes in Greek and Hermes Trismegistus in Greco-Egyptian mythology. Has two serpents around it and wings.
Caduceus
Emys Orbicularis reptile
Pond terrapin
Amphibian Lissotriton Vulgaris
Smooth newt
Amphibian Lissotriton Helveticus
Palmate Newt
Definition in botany, five or more lobes whose midribs all radiate from one point. In zoology, in antler, angles between tines partly filled in to form a a broad flat surface as in fallow deer or moose.
Palmate
Prong or Sharp joint such that on a fork or antler
Tine
Triturus cristalus newt known as great crested newt, alternative name what due to jagged crest.
Warty Newt
Posterior orifice that serves as only opening for digestive, reproductive and urinary tracts of many vertebrates. Excrete both faeces and urine. Comes from Latin for cleanse or sewer.
Cloaca
Bufo bufo amphibian
Common toad
Bufo spinosus amphibian
Spiny toad
Epidalea calamita amphibian
Natterjack toad
Rana Temporaria amphibian
Common frog
Rana arvalis amphibian
Moor frog
Pelophylax lessonae amphibian
Pool frog
Salamandra salamandra amphibian
Fire salamander
Alytes obstetricans amphibian
Midwife toad
Bombina Variegata amphibian
Yellow bellied toad
Hyla arborea amphibian
European tree frog
Xenopus Laevis - now extinct apart from one place in Uk amphibian
African clawed toad
Salix Triandra is a willow named after which seed
Almond Willow
Prunus Amygdalus or Prunus Dulcis in the peach family
Almond
In botany, what is an indehiscent fruit in which outer fleshy part surrounds a single shell (pit, stone or pyrena) of hardened endocarp with a seed inside.
Drupe
Crocuta crocuta animal
Spotted hyena
Chlorocebus aethiops is an Old World monkey with long white tufts of hair along the sides of its face: Ethiopia Sudan Djibouti
Grivet
Papio anubis what type of primate with colour in name
Olive Baboon
Phacochoerus africanus animal
Common Warthog
Syncerus caffer animal
African Buffalo
