C.L. Notes 76-100 Flashcards
76.
A billionth of a second.
What is nanosecond?
76.
Nanosecond is often used to refer to this.
What is a very short time period?
77.
A branch of technology devoted to producing devices on an atomic scale.
What is nanotechnology?
77.
The working part of a typical nanotechnology device might be what.
What is only a few thousand atoms in width?
78.
A computer that is designed to mimic the human brain or some other biological system in its functioning.
What is neural networks?
78.
Neural networks was developed to deal with this.
What is problems?
79.
The operation of oil wells on the continental shelf , sometimes in water 100s of feet deep.
What is offshore drilling?
79.
Public debate about offshore drilling concentrates on this.
What is the possibility that large oil spills will occur, with subsequent damage to the coastal environment?
80.
A machine that could run forever.
What is a perpetual-motion machine?
80.
According to the second law of thermodynamics, such a machine is this.
What is impossible?
81.
A method of finding the position and velocity of an object by bouncing a radio wave off it and analyzing the reflected wave.
What is radar?
81.
Radar is this.
What is an acronym?
82.
Radioactive materials that may be left after a commercial or laboratory process has been carried out.
What is radioactive waste?
82.
Radioactive waste can be these two things.
What is low-level or high-level?
83.
The programs and instructions that run a computer
What is software?
83.
Software runs this.
What is computers?
84.
A specially designed airplane that Charles Lindbergh flew in the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Spirit Of St. Louis?
84.
The Spirit of St. Louis is on display at this place.
What is in a museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.?
85.
A series of Soviet satellites launched in 1957 and in Following years.
What is Sputniks?
85.
The period is now referred to as this.
What is the Post-Sputnik boom?
86.
A commercial aircraft that flies faster than the speed of sound.
What is SST?
86.
SST stands for this.
What is supersonic transport?
87.
The use of advanced design and specialized materials to make an aircraft difficult or even impossible to detect by radar.
What is Stealth Tachnology?
87.
Stealth aircraft was used for the first time in this place.
What is the Persian Gulf War?
88.
Orville and Wilbur Wright , American mechanics and inventors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Who were the Wright Brothers?
88.
The Wright brothers filed the first heavier than air machine and we call it this today.
What is the airplane?
89.
A tendon connecting the heel bone with the calf muscle of the leg.
What is the Achilles Tendon?
89.
Achilles was this.
What was a Greek legend hero?
90.
A technique that originated in China.
What is acupuncture?
90.
Acupuncture is a technique for curing disease, relieving pain , or bringing about partial anesthesia by inserting needles into the body at these points.
What is at specific points?
91.
Acronym for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, a fatal disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus , or HIV.
What is AIDS?
91.
AIDS first appeared in this place.
What is the United States in 1981?
92.
AIDS believed to have started in this place.
What is Africa?
92.
AIDS has infected about this many people.
What is 25,000,000 people world wide?
93.
A chronic disease with the excessive and habitual consumption is alcohol.
What is alcoholism?
93.
Alcohol is marked by this.
What is physical dependency ?
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.
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
94.
Anorexia is also characterized by this.
What is a distorted self-image?
95.
An infection caused by bacteria.
What is bacterial function?
95.
Diseases caused by bacterial infections include these.
What is Diptheria, Tuberculosis, and Typhoid Fever?
96.
A descriptive term for conditions that present no danger to life or well- being.
What is Benign?
96.
The term “benign” is use Dwyer describing this.
What is tumors or growths that do not threaten the health of an individual?
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.
What is biofeedback?
97.
Biofeedback has had some of these in the treatment of such disorders as chronic headaches and back pain.
What are successes?
98.
Blood against the blood vessels.
What is blood pressure?
98.
Blood pressure is expressed by this.
What is two numerical values?
99.
One of many groups into which a persons blood can be categorized.
What is blood types?
99.
Blood transfusions can be given at this time.
Why is when diners and recipients have compatible blood types?
100.
The flexible tubular canals through which blood circulates in the body.
What are blood vessels?
100.
These things are all types of blood vessels.
What are arteries, veins, and capillaries?
