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C.L. Notes 76-100 Flashcards

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76.

A billionth of a second.

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What is nanosecond?

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76.

Nanosecond is often used to refer to this.

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What is a very short time period?

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77.

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

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What is nanotechnology?

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77.

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

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What is only a few thousand atoms in width?

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78.

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

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What is neural networks?

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78.

Neural networks was developed to deal with this.

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What is problems?

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79.

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

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What is offshore drilling?

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79.

Public debate about offshore drilling concentrates on this.

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

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80.

A machine that could run forever.

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What is a perpetual-motion machine?

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80.

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

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What is impossible?

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

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What is radar?

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81.

Radar is this.

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What is an acronym?

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82.

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

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What is radioactive waste?

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82.

Radioactive waste can be these two things.

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What is low-level or high-level?

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83.

The programs and instructions that run a computer

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What is software?

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83.

Software runs this.

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What is computers?

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84.

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

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What is the Spirit Of St. Louis?

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84.

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

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

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85.

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

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What is Sputniks?

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85.

The period is now referred to as this.

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What is the Post-Sputnik boom?

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86.

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

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What is SST?

22
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86.

SST stands for this.

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What is supersonic transport?

23
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87.
The use of advanced design and specialized materials to make an aircraft difficult or even impossible to detect by radar.

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What is Stealth Tachnology?

24
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87.

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

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What is the Persian Gulf War?

25
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88.

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

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Who were the Wright Brothers?

26
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88.

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

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What is the airplane?

27
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89.

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

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What is the Achilles Tendon?

28
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89.

Achilles was this.

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What was a Greek legend hero?

29
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90.

A technique that originated in China.

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What is acupuncture?

30
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90.
Acupuncture is a technique for curing disease, relieving pain , or bringing about partial anesthesia by inserting needles into the body at these points.

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What is at specific points?

31
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91.

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

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What is AIDS?

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91.

AIDS first appeared in this place.

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What is the United States in 1981?

33
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92.

AIDS believed to have started in this place.

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What is Africa?

34
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92.

AIDS has infected about this many people.

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What is 25,000,000 people world wide?

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93.

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

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What is alcoholism?

36
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93.

Alcohol is marked by this.

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What is physical dependency ?

37
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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.

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What is Anorexia Nervosa?

38
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94.

Anorexia is also characterized by this.

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What is a distorted self-image?

39
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95.

An infection caused by bacteria.

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What is bacterial function?

40
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95.

Diseases caused by bacterial infections include these.

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What is Diptheria, Tuberculosis, and Typhoid Fever?

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96.

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

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What is Benign?

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96.

The term “benign” is use Dwyer describing this.

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

43
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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.

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What is biofeedback?

44
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97.

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

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What are successes?

45
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98.

Blood against the blood vessels.

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What is blood pressure?

46
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98.

Blood pressure is expressed by this.

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What is two numerical values?

47
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99.

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

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What is blood types?

48
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99.

Blood transfusions can be given at this time.

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Why is when diners and recipients have compatible blood types?

49
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100.

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

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What are blood vessels?

50
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100.

These things are all types of blood vessels.

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What are arteries, veins, and capillaries?

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