C.L. Notes 76-100

Question 1

76.

A billionth of a second.

Answer 1

What is nanosecond?

Question 2

76.

Nanosecond is often used to refer to this.

Answer 2

What is a very short time period?

Question 3

77.

A branch of technology devoted to producing devices on an atomic scale.

Answer 3

What is nanotechnology?

Question 4

77.

The working part of a typical nanotechnology device might be what.

Answer 4

What is only a few thousand atoms in width?

Question 5

78.

A computer that is designed to mimic the human brain or some other biological system in its functioning.

Answer 5

What is neural networks?

Question 6

78.

Neural networks was developed to deal with this.

Answer 6

What is problems?

Question 7

79.

The operation of oil wells on the continental shelf , sometimes in water 100s of feet deep.

Answer 7

What is offshore drilling?

Question 8

79.

Public debate about offshore drilling concentrates on this.

Answer 8

What is the possibility that large oil spills will occur, with subsequent damage to the coastal environment?

Question 9

80.

A machine that could run forever.

Answer 9

What is a perpetual-motion machine?

Question 10

80.

According to the second law of thermodynamics, such a machine is this.

Answer 10

What is impossible?

Question 11

81.
A method of finding the position and velocity of an object by bouncing a radio wave off it and analyzing the reflected wave.

Answer 11

What is radar?

Question 12

81.

Radar is this.

Answer 12

What is an acronym?

Question 13

82.

Radioactive materials that may be left after a commercial or laboratory process has been carried out.

Answer 13

What is radioactive waste?

Question 14

82.

Radioactive waste can be these two things.

Answer 14

What is low-level or high-level?

Question 15

83.

The programs and instructions that run a computer

Answer 15

What is software?

Question 16

83.

Software runs this.

Answer 16

What is computers?

Question 17

84.

A specially designed airplane that Charles Lindbergh flew in the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

Answer 17

What is the Spirit Of St. Louis?

Question 18

84.

The Spirit of St. Louis is on display at this place.

Answer 18

What is in a museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.?

Question 19

85.

A series of Soviet satellites launched in 1957 and in Following years.

Answer 19

What is Sputniks?

Question 20

85.

The period is now referred to as this.

Answer 20

What is the Post-Sputnik boom?

Question 21

86.

A commercial aircraft that flies faster than the speed of sound.

Answer 21

What is SST?

Question 22

86.

SST stands for this.

Answer 22

What is supersonic transport?

Question 23

87.
The use of advanced design and specialized materials to make an aircraft difficult or even impossible to detect by radar.

Answer 23

What is Stealth Tachnology?

Question 24

87.

Stealth aircraft was used for the first time in this place.

Answer 24

What is the Persian Gulf War?

Question 25

88. | Orville and Wilbur Wright , American mechanics and inventors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Answer 25

Who were the Wright Brothers?

Question 26

88. | The Wright brothers filed the first heavier than air machine and we call it this today.

Answer 26

What is the airplane?

Question 27

89. | A tendon connecting the heel bone with the calf muscle of the leg.

Answer 27

What is the Achilles Tendon?

Question 28

89. | Achilles was this.

Answer 28

What was a Greek legend hero?

Question 29

90. | A technique that originated in China.

Answer 29

What is acupuncture?

Question 30

90. Acupuncture is a technique for curing disease, relieving pain , or bringing about partial anesthesia by inserting needles into the body at these points.

Answer 30

What is at specific points?

Question 31

91. | Acronym for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, a fatal disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus , or HIV.

Answer 31

What is AIDS?

Question 32

91. | AIDS first appeared in this place.

Answer 32

What is the United States in 1981?

Question 33

92. | AIDS believed to have started in this place.

Answer 33

What is Africa?

Question 34

92. | AIDS has infected about this many people.

Answer 34

What is 25,000,000 people world wide?

Question 35

93. | A chronic disease with the excessive and habitual consumption is alcohol.

Answer 35

What is alcoholism?

Question 36

93. | Alcohol is marked by this.

Answer 36

What is physical dependency ?

Question 37

94. A psychosomatic disorder in which the sufferer refuses to eat and undertakes activities (such as self-induced vomiting) to bring about extreme weight loss.

Answer 37

What is Anorexia Nervosa?

Question 38

94. | Anorexia is also characterized by this.

Answer 38

What is a distorted self-image?

Question 39

95. | An infection caused by bacteria.

Answer 39

What is bacterial function?

Question 40

95. | Diseases caused by bacterial infections include these.

Answer 40

What is Diptheria, Tuberculosis, and Typhoid Fever?

Question 41

96. | A descriptive term for conditions that present no danger to life or well- being.

Answer 41

What is Benign?

Question 42

96. | The term "benign" is use Dwyer describing this.

Answer 42

What is tumors or growths that do not threaten the health of an individual?

Question 43

97. 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 normally considered to be involuntary.

Answer 43

What is biofeedback?

Question 44

97. | Biofeedback has had some of these in the treatment of such disorders as chronic headaches and back pain.

Answer 44

What are successes?

Question 45

98. | Blood against the blood vessels.

Answer 45

What is blood pressure?

Question 46

98. | Blood pressure is expressed by this.

Answer 46

What is two numerical values?

Question 47

99. | One of many groups into which a persons blood can be categorized.

Answer 47

What is blood types?

Question 48

99. | Blood transfusions can be given at this time.

Answer 48

Why is when diners and recipients have compatible blood types?

Question 49

100. | The flexible tubular canals through which blood circulates in the body.

Answer 49

What are blood vessels?

Question 50

100. | These things are all types of blood vessels.

Answer 50

What are arteries, veins, and capillaries?