Science Flashcards
Tornadoes often develop from supercell thunderstorms that exhibit an ”echo” named for its resemblance to this object.
hook (echo)
Biological production of this compound by cattle and termites is a major contributor to global warming.
Methane
This compound that was first isolated from marsh gas is also the simplest alkane and is the main component of natural gas.
Methane
This tissue forms a ring-shaped structure in the neck called the cricoid.
Cartilage
Breakdown of this tissue made of chondrocytes affects the bones in osteoarthritis.
Cartilage
This quantity is fixed for a reversible, adiabatic process. The Clausius inequality relates this quantity’s change to the heat transferred over the temperature.
Entropy
The vampire bat, like all bats, belongs to this taxonomic order of mammals.
Chiroptera
When doing this mathematical process ”by exhaustion,” one checks every possible case. This process demonstrates the truth of a theorem.
Proof
Used by early mathematicians to find a shape’s area, the method of exhaustion is essentially a version of this calculus operation that also finds area.
Integral
When a set is partitioned, the partitions must be exhaustive—meaning they cover the whole set—and have this quality, meaning the intersection of any combination of them is empty.
Disjoint
This type of electromagnetic radiation is subdivided into “hard” and “soft” varieties.
x-rays
Name this type of radiation that was used to produce a landmark 1895 image of a hand wearing a wedding ring.
x-rays
This German physicist discovered X-rays. He is the namesake of element 111 on the periodic table.
Wilhelm (Conrad) Röntgen [Element 111 is roentgenium.]
For discovering X-rays, Röntgen was the first-ever recipient of this physics prize. In 1921 Albert Einstein won this prize for his theory of the photoelectric effect.
Nobel Prize in Physics
Water that has undergone this process to remove dissolved impurities can be heated beyond its normal boiling point without boiling.
distillation