IAC 2023- 2024 Word Cheat Sheet Round 3 Flashcards
_____ ______- henry Becquerel; The French Physicist, Henri Becquerel, discovered the phenomenon of radioactivity. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with _____ _____ and Pierre ______ (_____’s husband) in 1903 for their work in radioactivity . Madame _____ and her husband coined the term radioactivity.
Marie Curie
______ _______ - In a _______ reaction, the nucleus of an atom is bombarded with a neutron, which causes it to split into two or more smaller nuclei. This releases a large amount of energy, which can be harnessed for practical purposes. The technology is heavily used in _______ reactors and even in atomic bombs.
Nuclear fission
_____ - snowball dirt theory ; Whipple believed they were like dirty snowballs - large chunks of water ice and dust mixed with ammonia, methane and carbon dioxide. As the snowball approached the Sun, its outer ices began to vapourise, releasing large amounts of dust and gas which formed the characteristic tails.
Comet
____ - electron degeneracy star; Electron degeneracy pressure will halt the gravitational collapse of a star if its ____ is below the Chandrasekhar limit (1.44 solar masses). This is the pressure that prevents a white dwarf star from collapsing.
Mass
________- The _________ period (199.6 million to 145.5 million years ago) was characterized by a warm, wet climate that gave rise to lush vegetation and abundant life. Many new dinosaurs emerged—in great numbers. Among them were stegosaurs, brachiosaurs, allosaurs, and many others
Jurassic
_________ - arabian sea ; The Arabian Sea Branch of the south-west __________ first hits the Western Ghats of the coastal state of Kerala, thus making this area first to receive rain from the south-west __________. This branch of the ________ moves northwards towards western side.
Moonsoon
_____ - deep sea animals; Deep-sea ______, like their warm-water cousins, are actually colonies of small animals that build a common skeleton, which grows into many shapes and colors. Unlike tropical reefs, they live from 150 feet to more than 10,000 feet below sea level, where sunlight is dim to nonexistent.
Coral
________ - solid tumors somatic cell; Targeting _______ by taxanes is one of the most common chemotherapeutic approaches in various malignant solid tumors, but cancer cells may survive antimitotic treatment with attainable in vivo concentrations due to mitotic slippage
Mitosis
_______- 1000 ft tower
London
______ - distant galaxy; ________’s brilliant observation was that the red shift of galaxies was directly proportional to the distance of the galaxy from earth. That meant that things farther away from Earth were moving away faster. In other words, the universe must be expanding.
Hubble
