C.L. EXAM 76-100 Flashcards
76.a billionth of a second
What is a nanosecond?
76.to refer to as a very short time
How is the term often used?
77.a branch of technology
What is nano technology?
77.a few thousand
How many atoms in width?
78.a computer system that is designed to mimic the human brain
What is neural network?
78.to deal with problems like patterns and recognition
What were they developed for?
79.the operation of oil wells on the continental shelf
What is offshore drilling?
79.hundreds of feet deep
How many feet deep do they drill?
80.a machine that can run forever
What is perpetual-motion machine?
80.it needs as much energy as it is to run forever
How much energy does it need?
81.a method of finding the position and velocity of an object by bouncy
What is a radar?
81.the velocity and position of an object
What does it determine?
82.radioactive materials that may be left after a commercial or laboratory process has been carried out
What is radioactive waste?
82.some wastes are considered high level gas and it is very hazardous
Why has their been a public debate over radioactive waste?
83.the programs and instructions that run a computer
What is software?
83.actual physical machinery
What is software opposed to?
84.a specially designed airplane
What is the spirit of St. Louis ?
84.museum of smihsonian institution
Where was the spirit of St. Louis displayed?
85.a series of soviet satellites launched in 1957
What is a Sputnik?
85.1957
What year did the Sputnik launche?
86.a commercial aircraft
What is SST?
86.the Concorde
What is an example of SST?
87.the use of advanced designs
What is stealth technology?
87.persian golf
When were SA 1st used?
88.American mechanics and inventors of the late 19 th and the early 20th
Who are the wright brothers?
88.Kitty Hawks, North Carolina in 1903
Where was their flight made?
89.A tendon commenting the heel bone with the calf muscle of the leg.
What is Achilles tendon?
89.What happen in Greek with Achilles?
One of the Greek legend, Achilles, only could be wounded in the heel.
90.A technique of healing that China use for curing disease, and relieving pain.
What is acupuncture?
90.Insert the needle in specific places in the body.
Where do you insert the needles?
91.Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, a fatal disease caused by the human immunodeficiency or HIV.
What are AIDS?
91.The virus attacks the white blood cells thereby causing the body to lose the capable of fighting infection. Result of catching this disease the patients usually dies of opportunistic infections.
What happen when you have AIDS?
92.africa
Where do people believe originated from?
92.65 million
How many people had aids in 2006?
93.a chronic disease
What is alcoholism ?
93.organs failing
What are the side affects of alcholism?
94.a psychosomatic disease
What is anorexia nervosa?
94.12 to 21
Anorexia occurs in what age?
95.an infection cased by bacteria
What is bacterial infection?
- Pipithernia tuberculosis and thyroid fever.
What are the diseases of bacteria infection ?
- A descriptive term for conditions that represent no
What is benign?
- No
What is the term “benign” describing ?
97.a training technique by which a person learns how to regulate certain body functions
What is biofeedback ?
- Watching special monitoring instruments
How does the person learn?
98.the pressure of the blood against the walls of the blood vessels
What is blood pressure?
98.the pressure when the left ventricle of the heart can tracts to push blood through the body
what is systolic pressure?
99.one of the many groups into which a persons blood can be categorized
What is blood type?
- Yes blood type is inherited.
Is blood type inherited ?
100.the fluid circulating through the heart arteries and veins
What is blood?
- 4 things this passes through?
How many things does blood pass through?
