C.L TEST 76-100 Flashcards
- What is a nanosecond?
A billionth of a second
- What is nanosecond often used for?
To refer to a very short time
- What’s nanotechnology ?
A branch of technology devoted to producing devices on an atomic scale
77.What’s the width of a typical nanotechnology device?
Only a few thousand atoms in width
78.What’s Neural Neworks?
A computer system that is designed to mimic the human brain or some other biological system in its functioning
78.Why were Neural Networks developed?
To deal with problems, like pattern recognition
79.What’s Offshore Drilling?
The operation of oil wells on the continental shelf, sometimes in water 100 feet deep
79.What’s the public debate about Offshore Drilling?
It concentrates on the possibility that large oil spills will occur, with subsequent damage to the coastal environment
80.What’s a Perpetual-Motion Machine?
A machine that could run forever
80.What’s the second law of Thermo-dynamics?
Such a machine is impossible,and to date none has ever been successfully demonstrated
81.What’s a radar?
A method of finding the position and VELOCITY of an object by bouncing a radio wave off it and analyzing the reflected wave
81.What is radar an acronym for?
Radio Detection And Ranging
82.What’s radioactive waste?
Radioactive materials that may be left after a commercial or laboratory process has been carried out
82.What’s the public debate?
The safest means of storing the waste, which can remain dangerously radioactive for up to hundreds of thousands of years
83.What’s software?
The programs and instructions that run a computer
83.What does this compose?
Hardware
84.What’s The Spirit of St. Louis?
A specially designed airplane that Charles Lindberg flew in the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean
84.Where is The Spirit of St. Louis on display at?
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.c
85.What’s Sputniks?
A series of Soviet satellites launched in 1957 and in following years
85.What were Sputniks?
The first artificial satellites
86.What’s SST?
A commercial aircraft that flies faster than the speed of sound
86.What does SST stand for?
Supersonic Transport
- What is Stealth Technology?
The use of advanced design and specialized materials to make an aircraft difficult or even impossible to detect the RADAR
- Where was Stealth Technology successful?
In the Persian Gulf War
- What is Achilles Tendon?
A tendon connecting the heel bone with the calf muscle of the leg
- What Greek legend did this come from?
Achilles
- Who were the Wright Brothers?
Orville and Wilber Wright were American mechanics and inventors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who achieved the first sustained flight of an heavier than air machine or airplane
- Where was the Wright brothers flight?
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
- What are AIDS?
A fatal disease caused by the human inmunodefiency virus or hiv
- What is aids an acronym for?
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
- What is alcoholism?
A chronic disease with the excessive and habitual consumption of alcohol
- What is alcoholism associated with?
Abnormal heart rhythms , certain cancers, birth defects, or subsequent abnormalities, and because of loss of appetite, with poor nutrition
- What is anorexia nervosa?
A psychosomatic disorder in which the sufferer refuses to eat and undertakes activities to bring about extreme weight loss
- What is anorexia characterized by?
Self distorted image
- Whats a bacterial infection?
An infection
- What causes a Bacterial Infection?
Bacterial infection is caused by a
- Whats benign?
A descriptive term for conditions that present no danger to life or well being
- What is benign the term used as?
It is used while describing tumors
- Whats biofeedback ?
A training technique by which a person learns how to regulate certain body functions
97.How does a person learn biofeedback ?
By watching special monitoring instruments attached to the body that record changes in these functions
- What’s blood pressure?
The pressure of blood against the walls of the blood vessels
- What is diastolic pressure?
The pressure when the ventricle relaxes and fills with blood
- Whats a blood type?
One of many groups into which a persons blood can be categorized, based upon the presence or absence of specific antigens in the blood
- What categories are there in a blood type?
A, B, AB, and O
- What is a blood vessel?
The flexible tubular canals through which blood circulates in the body
- What kinds of blood vessels are there?
Arteries, veins, and capillaries
