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Quiz 2 2014 Flashcards

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What chemical element is needed to make the lenses of thermal cameras? Uranium, beryllium, lithium, germanium?

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Germanium

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Which of the following is not one of the three parts of cell theory? 1 Cell is the basic unit of structure and function in all living things, 2 cells only come from other pre-existing cells by cell division, 3call living things are made of cells, 4 all cells have similar structures, processes and functions

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all cells have similar structures, processes and functions

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Desert biomes receive how much rain each year? Less than 25 cm, 50-100 cm, 26-50 cm, 100-200 cm

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less than 25cm

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Zooshare will be using food waste and what else in their biogas plant at the Toronto zoo. Algae, grass clippings, wood chips, poop from zoo animals

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poop from zoo animals

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What type of imaging do pregnant women often undergo to see their unborn babies? Mri, ct, xray, ultrasound

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ultrasound

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Which is an example of spectacular reflection? Light reflecting of a dry road, light reflecting off grass, light reflecting off a calm pond, light reflecting off snow

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light reflecting off a calm pond… like a mirror

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What is the name for the part of the flower than contains the ovary? Carpel, petal, stamen, sepal

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carpel

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What would you find at the center of the earth? Dinosaurs, solid iron and some nickle, an alien base, hot semi-solid rock

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solid iron and some nickle

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what is the spectroscope on an astronomical camera similar to? A motor, a prism, a mirror, a lens?

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a prism

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What do you need in order to break a code? Skeleton key, hammer, encryption key, lock pick

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encryption key

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a four man bobsled team want to try different seating patterns, how many choices of patterns do they have?

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4 x 3 x 2 x 1 = 24

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What travels at 299 792 458 m/s

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light

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What is the unit used by most pressure gauges in North America to measure air pressure in tires? Pascal, bar, torr, psi

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psi

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What is the order for a mine’s life cycle?

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exploration, development, operation, closure and reclamation

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Which part of these plant parts is NOT a fruit? Peanut in it’s shell, tomato, grain of wheat, stalk of celery

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stalk of celery

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An ice cream parlour has 3 flavours and 4 topings, how many different sundaes can you have with one flavour of icecream and one topping?

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4x3=12

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What do many plants in a boreal forest work together with to get the most nutrients they can out of soil? Birds, worms, squirrels, mycorrhizal fungi

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mycorrhizal fungi

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Which is a biome found in Canada? Desert, tropical rainforest, boreal forest/taiga, savana

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boreal forest/taiga

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Grote Reber is the first person to have built which type of telescope? Radio, reflecting, refracting, x-ray

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Radio

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What does a functional MRI (fMRI) machine measure? Healing of bones, changes in blood flow in the brain, growth of the brain, changes in tumour size

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Changes in blood flow within the brain

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What is the name of the flat part of the leaf? Petiole, lamina, node, internode

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lamina

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What is the term for when crust material is pushed downwards into the mantle? Obduction, extrusive, intrusive, subduction

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subduction

23
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lithotripsy is a process by which ultrasound is used to remove fat, observe blood flow, break up kidney and gallstones, look for tumours

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break up kidney and gallstones

24
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Using a Caesar cipher and a downward shift of 5 letters what would be the cipher for house?

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mtzxj

25
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Where does the Hubble space telescope get its power?

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solar panels

26
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In African, elephants and rhinoceros are illegally hunted for what parts?

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horns and tusks

27
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What type of light refracts light into all its colours? Biconcave lens, prism, mirror, telescope

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prism

28
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What do mountains and volcanoes have in common? Large and steep, made of rock, formed from tectonic plate movement, all of the above

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all of the above

29
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What does T stand for in the ideal gas law?

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Temperature

30
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Cones are located in which part of the eye?

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Fovea

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Which part is part of a pressure guage? Piston, spring, calibrating rod, all of the above

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all of the above

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What was Roentgen experimenting with when he discovered x-rays? Telescope, cathode ray tubes, microscope, CT scanner?

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cathode ray tubes

33
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Which of the activity has had the most impact on Savanna biomes?

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poaching

34
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Which phylum of the plant kingdom includes ferns? Gymnosperm, pteridophyta, bryophta, chlorophyta

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Pteridophyta

35
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what morse code message is … — …

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SOS

36
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-273.15 degrees Celsius is what temperature on the Kelvin scale?

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0 K

37
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What are the three primary colours?

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Red green blue

38
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What is the name of the large bowl shaped part of a radio telescope?

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Dish

39
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Which of these is a precious metal? Nickle, iron, silver, lead

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silver

40
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Which of these is the MOST primitive true plant? Lichen, seaweed, mosses, ferns

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mosses

41
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What kind of lens would correct vision of a person with myopia? Biconcave, convex, double convex, concave?

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biconcave lens

42
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Where is the Hubble telescope?

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in low earth orbit

43
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Which of the following is NOT one of the seven major tectonic plates: Antarctic, African, North American, Arctic

A

Arctic

44
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What is the name of a key that is used to both encrypt and decrypt a message? Symmetric, public, private,master

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symmetric key

45
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What gas is combusted at the ZooShare facility to generate electricity? Methane, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen

A

methane

46
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If the Arecibo Message is heard in M13 and a reply is sent when can we expect it? 27000 years, 42000 years, 100 years, 1500 years

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42000 years

47
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Which of these is NOT a type of carbohydrate found in plants. Pectin, chlorophyll, cellulose, starch

A

chlorophyll

48
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If a spinner has 1,2,3,4 what is the chance that it will stop on 1 two times in a row?

A

¼ x ¼ = 1/16

49
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What is unusual about larch trees?

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they are deciduous and lose their needles

50
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What did Sir Godfrey Hounsfield use to test his prototype CT machine? preserved human brain, fresh cow brain, himself, all of the above

A

all of the above

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