J! Science and Tech (and formerly Nature and Animals) Flashcards by Jen Kennings

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acid vitamin C

A

ascorbic acid

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Danish physicist 1900s

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Niels Bohr

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CH4

A

methane

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first artificial heart

A

Jarvik 7

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discovered Pluto and Mars canals

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Percival Lowell

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English woman studied chimpanzees in Tanzania

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Jane Goodall

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American woman studied mountain gorillas in Rwanda

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Dian Fossey

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American archaeologist Olduvai Gorge skull

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Mary Leakey

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cluster of sister stars

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Pleiades

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warm Pacific current 3-7 years

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El Nino

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islets of Langerhans location

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pancreas

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father of the nuclear submarine/nuclear navy

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Hyman Rickover

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nephrite gem

A

jade

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nerve that causes “hitting your funny bone”

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ulnar nerve

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bright spots around the moon during a solar eclipse

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Baily’s beads

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ACL full name

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anterior cruciate ligament

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movable part of airplane wing

A

aileron

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word for light particle

A

photon

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first commercially available computer

A

UNIVAC

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extinct bear

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cave bear

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discovered oxygen

A

Joseph Priestley

Q

Defense Department internet precursor

A

ARPANET

Q

good cholesterol

A

HDL

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French microbiologist

A

Pasteur

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vitamin B3/nicotinic acid

A

niacin

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“handy man” human ancestor

A

Homo habilis

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Russian-American father of TV invented kinescope, iconoscope

A

Vladimir Zworykin

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limestone with Italian name

A

travertine

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largest flatfish

A

halibut

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“Persian greyhound” sacred in Egypt

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Saluki

Q

dog-sized horse ancestor

A

eohippus

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enclosure of water vapor to trace particle paths

A

cloud chamber

Q

French Blue new name

A

Hope Diamond

Q

Optics treatise

A

Newton

Q

mammoth cousin

A

mastodon

Q

vitamin B1 name

A

thiamine

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redox reaction components (2)

A

reduction, oxidation

Q

NH3 chemical

A

ammonia

Q

first homo erectus, Indonesia

A

Java Man

Q

marsh gas chemical

A

methane

Q

self loading Kodak camera

A

Instamatic

Q

putting silver iodide in the air to make rain

A

cloud seeding

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nuts on car wheels

A

lug nuts