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C. L. TEST 76-100 Flashcards

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  1. What is a nanosecond?
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A billionth of a second

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  1. What is nanosecond referred to?
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A very short time

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  1. What is nanotechnology?
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A branch of technology devoted to producing devices on an atomic scale

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  1. How big is the working part in nanotechnology?
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Few thousands atoms in width

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  1. What is neural networks?
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A computer system that is designed to mimic the human brain or other biological system in its functioning

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  1. What is offshore drilling?
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The operation of oil wells in the continental shelf

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  1. What are the public debates on oil drilling debating?
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Possibility of large oil spills

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  1. What is a perpetual-motion machine?
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A machine that can run on forever

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  1. What are the factors for a perpetual-motion machine?
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It would have to produce at least enough energy as was needed for operation

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  1. What is a RADAR?
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A method of firing the position and velocity of an object by bouncing a radio wave off it and analyzing the reflected wave

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  1. What does RADAR stand for?
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R-radio D-detection A-and R-ranging

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  1. What is radioactive waste?
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Radioactive materials that may be left after a commercial or laboratory process that has been carried out

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  1. What is low waste material?
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Objects that have touched the radioactive tracers used in certain medical tests

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  1. What is software?
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The programs and instructions that run a computer

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  1. What does software oppose?
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The actual physical machinery and devices that compose the hardware

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  1. What is the spirt of St. Louis?
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A specially designed airplane that Charles lindberg flew in the first non stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean

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  1. Where’s is the spirit of St. Louis located now?
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The smithsonian institute in Washington, D.C.

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  1. What is sputniks?
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A series of saviet satellites launched in 1957 and in following years

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  1. What time is sputniks referred to as?
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Post-Sputnik boom

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  1. What does SST stand for?
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S-super S-sonic transport

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  1. What is a SST?
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A commercial aircraft that flies faster than the speed of sound

23
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  1. What is stealth technology?
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The use of advanced design and specialized materials

24
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  1. When was stealth technology first used?
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Persian gulf war

25
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  1. Who were the wright brothers?
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American inventors and mechanics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

26
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  1. Where/when was the wright brothers first plane created?
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Kitty hawk, NC in 1903

27
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  1. What is an Achilles’ tendon?
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Tendon connecting the heel bone and the calf muscle of the leg

28
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  1. Who was Achilles?
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A greek legend that could only be wounded in the heel

29
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  1. What is acupuncture?
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Technique for curing disease, relieving pain, and bringing about anesthesia

30
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  1. Where’d did acupuncture originate?
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China

31
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  1. What does AIDS stand for?
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Acronym for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

32
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  1. What are AIDS?
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A fatal disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus or HIV

33
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  1. Where’d AIDS originate?
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Africa

34
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  1. How many people have been infected with AIDS?
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65 million people

35
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  1. What is alcoholism?
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A chronic disease with the excessive and habitual consumption of alcohol

36
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  1. What are alcoholisms affects?
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Abnormal heart rhythms, certain cancers, birth defects/subsequent abnormalities, and with the loss of appetite, poor nutrition

37
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  1. What is anorexia nervosa?
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A psychosomatic disorder in which the sufferer refuses to eat and undertakes activities to being about extreme weight loss

38
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  1. What are anorexia nervosa’s affects?
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Death if treatment not obtained

39
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  1. What is bacterial infection?
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An infection caused by bacteria

40
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95.What are bacterial infections affects?

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Diphtheria, tuberculosis, and typhoid fever

41
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  1. What is benign?
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A descriptive term meaning no danger in life

42
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  1. What is the term benign used for?
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Rumors that are no threaten to the individual

43
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  1. What is biofeedback?
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A training technique by which a person learns how to regulate certain body functions, such as heart rate, blood pressure or brain wave patterns that are considered to be involuntary

44
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  1. What has biofeedback had success in doing?
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Chronic headaches and back pain

45
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  1. What is blood pressure?
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The pressure of the blood against the walls of the blood vessels, especially the arteries

46
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  1. What is the systolic and diastolic pressures?
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Systolic- left ventricle pushing

Diastolic- ventricle relaxes and fills with blood

47
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  1. What is blood type?
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One of many groups into which a persons blood can be categorized, based upon the presence or absence of specific antigens in blood

48
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  1. What kind of blood types are there?
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A,B,AB,O

48
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  1. What were neural networks designed for?
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Deal with problems, like pattern recognition

49
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  1. What are blood vessels?
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The flexible tubular canals through which blood circulates the body

50
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  1. What are types of blood vessels?
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Capillaries, veins and arteries

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