J! Science and Tech (and formerly Nature and Animals) Flashcards

1
Q

acid vitamin C

A

ascorbic acid

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2
Q

Danish physicist 1900s

A

Niels Bohr

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3
Q

CH4

A

methane

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4
Q

first artificial heart

A

Jarvik 7

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5
Q

discovered Pluto and Mars canals

A

Percival Lowell

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6
Q

English woman studied chimpanzees in Tanzania

A

Jane Goodall

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7
Q

American woman studied mountain gorillas in Rwanda

A

Dian Fossey

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8
Q

American archaeologist Olduvai Gorge skull

A

Mary Leakey

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9
Q

cluster of sister stars

A

Pleiades

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10
Q

warm Pacific current 3-7 years

A

El Nino

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11
Q

islets of Langerhans location

A

pancreas

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12
Q

father of the nuclear submarine/nuclear navy

A

Hyman Rickover

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13
Q

nephrite gem

A

jade

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14
Q

nerve that causes “hitting your funny bone”

A

ulnar nerve

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15
Q

bright spots around the moon during a solar eclipse

A

Baily’s beads

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16
Q

ACL full name

A

anterior cruciate ligament

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17
Q

movable part of airplane wing

A

aileron

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18
Q

word for light particle

A

photon

19
Q

first commercially available computer

A

UNIVAC

20
Q

extinct bear

A

cave bear

21
Q

discovered oxygen

A

Joseph Priestley

22
Q

Defense Department internet precursor

A

ARPANET

23
Q

good cholesterol

A

HDL

24
Q

French microbiologist

A

Pasteur

25
Q

vitamin B3/nicotinic acid

A

niacin

26
Q

“handy man” human ancestor

A

Homo habilis

27
Q

Russian-American father of TV invented kinescope, iconoscope

A

Vladimir Zworykin

28
Q

limestone with Italian name

A

travertine

29
Q

largest flatfish

A

halibut

30
Q

“Persian greyhound” sacred in Egypt

A

Saluki

31
Q

dog-sized horse ancestor

A

eohippus

32
Q

enclosure of water vapor to trace particle paths

A

cloud chamber

33
Q

French Blue new name

A

Hope Diamond

34
Q

Optics treatise

A

Newton

35
Q

mammoth cousin

A

mastodon

36
Q

vitamin B1 name

A

thiamine

37
Q

redox reaction components (2)

A

reduction, oxidation

38
Q

NH3 chemical

A

ammonia

39
Q

first homo erectus, Indonesia

A

Java Man

40
Q

marsh gas chemical

A

methane

41
Q

self loading Kodak camera

A

Instamatic

42
Q

putting silver iodide in the air to make rain

A

cloud seeding

43
Q

nuts on car wheels

A

lug nuts