C.L TEST 76-100

Question 1

76. What is a nanosecond?

Answer 1

A billionth of a second

Question 2

76. What is nanosecond often used for?

Answer 2

To refer to a very short time

Question 3

77. What’s nanotechnology ?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

77.What’s the width of a typical nanotechnology device?

Answer 4

Only a few thousand atoms in width

Question 5

78.What’s Neural Neworks?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

78.Why were Neural Networks developed?

Answer 6

To deal with problems, like pattern recognition

Question 7

79.What’s Offshore Drilling?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

79.What’s the public debate about Offshore Drilling?

Answer 8

It concentrates on the possibility that large oil spills will occur, with subsequent damage to the coastal environment

Question 9

80.What’s a Perpetual-Motion Machine?

Answer 9

A machine that could run forever

Question 10

80.What’s the second law of Thermo-dynamics?

Answer 10

Such a machine is impossible,and to date none has ever been successfully demonstrated

Question 11

81.What’s a radar?

Answer 11

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

Question 12

81.What is radar an acronym for?

Answer 12

Radio Detection And Ranging

Question 13

82.What’s radioactive waste?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

82.What’s the public debate?

Answer 14

The safest means of storing the waste, which can remain dangerously radioactive for up to hundreds of thousands of years

Question 15

83.What’s software?

Answer 15

The programs and instructions that run a computer

Question 16

83.What does this compose?

Answer 16

Hardware

Question 17

84.What’s The Spirit of St. Louis?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

84.Where is The Spirit of St. Louis on display at?

Answer 18

The Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.c

Question 19

85.What’s Sputniks?

Answer 19

A series of Soviet satellites launched in 1957 and in following years

Question 20

85.What were Sputniks?

Answer 20

The first artificial satellites

Question 21

86.What’s SST?

Answer 21

A commercial aircraft that flies faster than the speed of sound

Question 22

86.What does SST stand for?

Answer 22

Supersonic Transport

Question 23

87. What is Stealth Technology?

Answer 23

The use of advanced design and specialized materials to make an aircraft difficult or even impossible to detect the RADAR

Question 24

87. Where was Stealth Technology successful?

Answer 24

In the Persian Gulf War

Question 25

89. What is Achilles Tendon?

Answer 25

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

Question 26

89. What Greek legend did this come from?

Answer 26

Achilles

Question 27

90. Who were the Wright Brothers?

Answer 27

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

Question 28

90. Where was the Wright brothers flight?

Answer 28

Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

Question 29

91. What are AIDS?

Answer 29

A fatal disease caused by the human inmunodefiency virus or hiv

Question 30

91. What is aids an acronym for?

Answer 30

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Question 31

93. What is alcoholism?

Answer 31

A chronic disease with the excessive and habitual consumption of alcohol

Question 32

93. What is alcoholism associated with?

Answer 32

Abnormal heart rhythms , certain cancers, birth defects, or subsequent abnormalities, and because of loss of appetite, with poor nutrition

Question 33

94. What is anorexia nervosa?

Answer 33

A psychosomatic disorder in which the sufferer refuses to eat and undertakes activities to bring about extreme weight loss

Question 34

94. What is anorexia characterized by?

Answer 34

Self distorted image

Question 35

95. Whats a bacterial infection?

Answer 35

An infection

Question 36

95. What causes a Bacterial Infection?

Answer 36

Bacterial infection is caused by a

Question 37

96. Whats benign?

Answer 37

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

Question 38

96. What is benign the term used as?

Answer 38

It is used while describing tumors

Question 39

97. Whats biofeedback ?

Answer 39

A training technique by which a person learns how to regulate certain body functions

Question 40

97.How does a person learn biofeedback ?

Answer 40

By watching special monitoring instruments attached to the body that record changes in these functions

Question 41

98. What’s blood pressure?

Answer 41

The pressure of blood against the walls of the blood vessels

Question 42

98. What is diastolic pressure?

Answer 42

The pressure when the ventricle relaxes and fills with blood

Question 43

99. Whats a blood type?

Answer 43

One of many groups into which a persons blood can be categorized, based upon the presence or absence of specific antigens in the blood

Question 44

99. What categories are there in a blood type?

Answer 44

A, B, AB, and O

Question 45

100. What is a blood vessel?

Answer 45

The flexible tubular canals through which blood circulates in the body

Question 46

100. What kinds of blood vessels are there?

Answer 46

Arteries, veins, and capillaries