That's Interesting Science Flashcards
When anything dies, whether plant or herbivore, carnivore or parasite, what happens to it?
It is eaten by scavengers like beetles, or it may decay eaten by bacteria and fungi. Yet again, the scavengers are powered by the sun.
What is Solar energy transference?
How does it give plants and animals power?
All energy comes from the sun and is reused in different forms. The green leaf is a solar panel, absorbing the electromagnetic radiation (ER). The plants are eaten by herbivores (plant eaters). The energy is passed to the herbivore. The herbivore uses the energy to fuel their muscles as they walk, graze and fight. Then comes the carnivore to eat the herbivore. The energy is passed on yet again. Other animals, parasites, feed on the living bodies of both herbivores and carnivores. So now the insects are powered by the Sun.
Ref: Magic of Reality–Dawkins P. 138
How does Solar Energy from millions of years ago, power our civilization today?
Ref: Magic of Reality. P. 140
Many plants and animals are not eaten but biodegrade. Over great amounts of time they become coal, oil and natural gas. These modern fuels power our cars, ships, trains etc. All that heat and energy came originally from the Sun, via the green leaves of plants that lived over 300 million years ago. [Think about this next time you gas up your car!]
How does the Carbon Dioxide that the tree leaves drink in get released back into the atmosphere?
When cold weather comes, the leaf dies and falls to the ground. As the leaf degrades, it releases the CO2 it drank in when the leaf was young and new. The CO2 merges back into the atmosphere.
If we claim that all our energy comes from the Sun, what about the Water Wheel’s energy we have used for power for hundreds of years?
Even all the water wheels energy came from the Sun indirectly from snow, ice and rain in the mountains and the formation of rain clouds all caused by the sun. [It is mind boggling how much energy we blindly use that is only possible because of the Sun.]
How tiny is an Atom?
A dust mite can only be seen through a microscope, but as small as it is, even a dust mite contains more than a hundred trillion atoms.
Ref. Magic of Reality P95.
How tiny is an Atom, example 2.
The period at this sentence end has over a trillion atoms.
Ref: Magic of Reality P91.
What would be a clever response if someone says I don’t believe we are from monkeys?
If someone says you are from a monkey, you can take it billions of time further back to when we were stars.
Magic of Reality P. 30.
Why was there never was a first person?
Caution. This is an Esoteric question.
Never was a first person because evolution takes millions of years. Our ancestors were Gibbons. It took a lot of evolving from Damaged DNA and replicating to evolve into the Hominid. Then the process repeated again to go from the Hominid to the Homo Sapien.
Always remember we started out as star dust, just like the Periodic table of elements. So we have come a long way.
What determined the names of our months of the year and our days of the week?
We got our days of the week and most months of the year from ancient God names.
Can we see the elements around us?
An atom of gold is the smallest we can reduce this atom and keep its identity as an atom of gold. Most of the substances we see around us are not elements, but compounds. A group of atoms joined together to make a compound is called a molecule.
Magic of Reality P80.
Which is the smallest. Protons, neutrons or Electrons?
Each nucleus of an atom contains particles called protons and neutrons. They are about the same size. But they are 1,000 times bigger than the electrons.
Ref: Magic of Reality P91
Colon Cancer in African Americans.
African Americans are twice as likely to get it than a white person. Plus those African Americans who do get it are twice as likely to die from it.
MN: This is because of the Neanderthal DNA. Whites have about 1.5% and African Americans have the lowest on record at about one half of a percent. Asians have roughly 2.0%.
Ref: NBC Nightly News 2.8.17
The Great Lakes.
If we spread the water from the Great Lakes over the Continental United States, would it cover all our land, half our land, or only a quarter of our land?
The Great Lakes have enough water to cover the entire continental United States to a depth of 9 feet!
Niagra Falls has existed over 20,000 years, true or false?
False. Niagra Falls has existed just over 12,000 years.
