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CL Test 57-75 Flashcards

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A device that makes sound louder

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What is an amplifier?

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2
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To create a louder, more audible sound at events.

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What is the purpose of an amplifier?

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A series of US space flights

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What was the Apollo program?

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1969-197

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When was the Apollo project?

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Neil Armstrong

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Who was the first man to step on the moon?

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8
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1st man to set foot on the moon

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What did Neil Armstrong do?

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9
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Artificial Intelligence

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What does AI mean?

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10
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Voice control

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What is a common AI?

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11
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The telephone

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What did Alexander Grahm Bell make?

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12
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A famous inventor of the US

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Who is Alexander Grahm Bell?

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15
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Alexander Graham Bell

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What started the Bell telephone company?

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16
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The Bell phone company

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What did Bell start?

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17
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A system of two parts

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What’s binary?

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01010111 01101000 01100001 01110100 0100000 01101001 01110011 0100000 01100010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 0100000 01100011 01101111 01100100 01100101 0111111

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What is binary code? (Written in binary)

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19
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The smallest unit of information

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What’s a bit?

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20
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A yes or no

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What does a bit typically correspond to?

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The sharp boom sound created from breaking the sound barrier

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What is a sonic boom?

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A plane

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What can make a sonic boom?

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The second smallest unit of info

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What is a byte?

24
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8 bits

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What is the size of a typical byte?

25
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The temperature scale in which 0 is water’s freezing point and 100 it’s boiling point

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What is Celsius?

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C (by the scientific community)

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How is Celsius demonstrated?

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Russia

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Where is Chernobyl?

28
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A nuclear meltdown

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What happened at Chernobyl, Russia?

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A program that is bad to the computer

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What is a computer virus?

30
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Send out messages, or could destroy files.

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What does a virus do?

31
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An American inventor of the 19th and 20th centuries

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Who was Thomas Edison?

32
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The lightbulb

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What did Edison invent?

33
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Media able to be delivered to millions of people

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What is mass media?

33
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Movies and tv

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What are two examples of mass media?

33
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A nuclear accident

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What is a meltdown?

33
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The release of radioactive material

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What can be caused by a meltdown?

35
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The fuel in a nuclear reactor overheats

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What happens in a meltdown?

36
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The release of radioactive material

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What is a possible outcome of a meltdown?

37
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A mathematical prefix

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What is nano?

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Mass media

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What is the information delivered to millions of people?

38
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1 billionth

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What is the value of nano?

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20th century

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When did mass media come about?

ENGLISH 2ND QUARTER (7 decks)

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