IAC Cheat Sheet Final Round (16 words) Flashcards
________ Proxima __________ is a small, low-mass star located 4.2465 light-years (1.3020 pc) away from the Sun in the southern constellation of __________
Centauri
_____________- ___________ of Syracuse was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily. invented the sciences of mechanics and hydrostatics. discovered the laws of levers and pulleys, which allow us to move heavy objects using small forces. invented one of the most fundamental concepts of physics – the center of gravity.
Archimedes -
_______________ - cockapoo; The kākāpō is critically endangered; the total known population of living individuals is 247 as of 2023.
New zealand
___________ - light therapy hormone;__________ is a hormone that your brain produces in response to darkness. It helps with the timing of your circadian rhythms (24-hour internal clock) and with sleep. Being exposed to light at night can block____________ production.
Melatonin
________________________ - Cnidaria paleozoic the _____________________happened more than 500 million years ago. It was when most of the major animal groups started to appear in the fossil record, a time of rapid expansion of different forms of life on Earth
Cambrian explosion
_____________ - Edwin hubble; Hubble discovered that Cepheid variable stars in ____________ were much farther away than those in the Milky Way.
Andromeda
_________ - Mathematics hyperbola ; In mathematics, hyperbolic geometry is a non-___________ geometry. In _________, the sum of the angles in a triangle is equal to two right angles; in hyperbolic, the sum is less than two right angles. In ________, polygons of differing areas can be similar; and in hyperbolic, similar polygons of differing areas do not exist.
Euclid
_______________ - Allan shepherd; New Shepard is a fully reusable sub-orbital launch vehicle developed for space tourism by _______________. The vehicle is named after Alan Shepard, who became the first American to travel into space and the fifth person to walk on the Moon. The vehicle is capable of vertical takeoff and landings.
Blue origin
___________ - Raolt law; Raoult’s law, the partial pressure of a single liquid component in an ideal liquid mixture equals the product of the vapor pressure of the pure component and its mole fraction.
Distillation
__________ - symbiosis oxfish; A _____________ relationship is when two organisms of different species “work together,” each benefiting from the relationship. One example of a _____________relationship is that of the oxpecker (a kind of bird) and the rhinoceros or zebra.
Mutualism
_______ - heaviest halogen; _______ is a mineral found in some foods. The body needs ________ to make thyroid hormones. These hormones control the body’s metabolism and many other important functions. The body also needs thyroid hormones for proper bone and brain development during pregnancy and infancy; ______ is a chemical element; it has symbol I and atomic number 53. The heaviest of the stable halogens
iodine
__________ - Isaac newton He discovered the binomial theorem, and he developed the _________, a more powerful form of analysis that employs infinitesimal considerations in finding the slopes of curves and areas under curves.
Calculus
___________ - period trinity nuclear; Trinity was the code name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon, conducted by the United States Army at 5:29 a.m. MWT (11:29:21 GMT) on July 16, 1945, ..
Holocene
__________- positron gluons, subatomic; A proton is composed of two up __________, one down quark, and the gluons that mediate the forces “binding” them together. positrons are not made of ________ but are instead fundamental particles, like electrons.
quarks
________ - astronomical body Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are hypothetical particles that are one of the proposed candidates for dark matter
Wimps
