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C.L. Test 57-75 Flashcards

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1
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A device that takes a small electric current and turns it into a large one.
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What is an amplifier?

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Electric guitars

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What is one of the things an amplifier is used for?

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A series of space flights undertaken by the United States

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What was the Apollo Program?

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Landing a man on the moon

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What was the goal of the Apollo program?

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The moon

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What did Neil Armstrong land on?

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An astronaut

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What was Neil Armstrong?

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The means of duplicating the intelligence of computers

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What is AI?

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Solve problems

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What did AI help them to do?

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9
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An American inventor and scientist

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Who was Alexander Graham Bell?

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10
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The telephone

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What did Alexander Bell invent in 1876?

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The invention of the telephone

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What caused phone companies to be in business?

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Alexander Bell

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Who invented the telephone?

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13
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Anything composed in two parts

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What is binary?

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14
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Banks of components

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Where is info stored in computers?

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15
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The smallest unit of info

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What is a bit?

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Yes or no

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What does one bit correspond to?

17
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A sharp explosive sound

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What is a “ sonic boom “?

18
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Faster than the speed of sound

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What speed is needed to get a sonic boom?

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A unit of info that is made up of bits

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What is a byte?

20
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A computer

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Where are bytes found?

21
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A temperature scale

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What is Celsius?

22
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100 boiling point 0 freezing point

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What points in Celsius are freezing and boiling?

23
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Ukraine

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Where is Chernobyl located

24
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A nuclear meltdown

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What occurred at Chernobyl?

25
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A program that enters a computer

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What is a computer virus?

26
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Through the Internet and from machine to machine

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How are computer viruses transferred?

27
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A branch of technology

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What are cryogenics?

28
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Materials at very low temperatures

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What does cryogenics deal with?

29
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An American inventor

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Who was Thomas Edison?

30
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The phonograph

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What was one item invented by Thomas Edison?

31
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Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration

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What was the proverb that was originated by Edison?

32
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The wizard of Menlo Park

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What was Edison also referred to as?

33
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Television, radio, newspapers, motion pictures, and magazines

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What are some examples of mass media?

34
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The technical capacity to deliver info to millions of people

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What did mass media have to have?

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The most serious accident that could happen at a nuclear plant

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What is a meltdown?

36
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Radioactive material has to become hot in the reactor

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What has to happen for a meltdown to occur?

37
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A prefix

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What is a nano?

38
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One billionth

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What is the prefix nano referring to?

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