Spring 2020 Flashcards
GEOGRAPHIC ABBREV.: MB: This Canadian province
Manitoba
BODIES OF WATER: Churchill, Manitoba, population 921, is one of the largest communities on this vast bay
The Hudson Bay
MAMMALS: Beneath the white fur, the skin of this bear is black, which helps absorb heat from the sun
Polar Bear
CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY, EH?: Canada’s Mackenzie River flows into this ocean
Arctic Ocean
ANIMATED DISNEY VILLAINS: Ursula the sea witch
Little Mermaid
THE EYES HAVE IT: The eyes have these 2 types of receptor cells; one gives color vision, the other black and white vision in dim light
rods and cones
AROUND THE BODY: A full set of adult human teeth includes this many canines
four
ONLY GEOGRAPHY: The only continent without glaciers
Australia
U.S. FACTS and FIGURES: Each year U.S. fossil fuels emit around 5 billion metric tons of this gas
CO2 (carbon dioxide)
WOMEN OF SCIENCE: Daughter of Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace created one of these for a machine devised by Charles Babbage
code (computer program)
FEMALE INVENTORS: Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, is said by some to be the first programmer, as she used this number system
binary
2.0: This company says its 7th generation Core i7 processors speed up your computer with turbo boost technology 2.0
Intel
COMPUTER GENIUSES: A real mensch, William D. Mensch, designed the processors in Wozniak & Jobs’ early computers from this company
Apple
6-LETTER CROSSWORD CLUES: The ancients could count on it
abacus
COMPUTER HISTORY: Punch-card tabulators vastly reduced the time needed to conduct the 1890 census and save taxpayers millions; They were created by Herman Hollerith, the father of modern automatic computation, who founded what is, today, this three-letter business giant
IBM
