IAC 2023-2024 Word Cheat Sheet 10 words

Question 1

___ - Vaccine RV144; RV 144, or the Thai trial, was an ___ vaccine clinical trial that was conducted in Thailand between 2003 and 2006.

Answer 1

HIV

Question 2

_____ - Occluded; Occluded ______ are usually a sign that the parent weather system has reached its mature stage and is decaying (decreasing in intensity). They are indicated by a purple line with alternating triangles and half-moons on the side of its motion. The cold air mass is moving faster than the cool air mass.

Answer 2

Fronts

Question 3

___ - Proteins; The primary function of ___ is to create proteins via translation

Answer 3

RNA

Question 4

_________ - tendency of an object to float or to rise in a fluid when submerged. This fluid can be either a liquid or a gas. Archimedes’ principle of buoyancy.

Answer 4

Buoyancy

Question 5

___- virus ; ___ virus infection of the respiratory tract can trigger an extreme inflammatory response in the body and can lead to sepsis

Answer 5

Flu

Question 6

_________ - snake river plain; the most obvious sign of the _______ activity associated with the Yellowstone/Snake River Plain hot spot is the dark lava flows

Answer 6

Volcano

Question 7

______ - Tacoma steel wire; The 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the first bridge at this location, was a suspension bridge in the U.S. state of Washington that spanned the Tacoma Narrows

Answer 7

Bridge

Question 8

________- molarity, sodium acetate

Answer 8

Solution

Question 9

__ - The number π is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, approximately equal to 3.14159.

Answer 9

Pi

Question 10

_______ _ - n mathematics, −1 (negative one or minus one) is the additive inverse of 1, that is, the number that when added to 1 gives the additive identity element, 0.

Answer 10

Negative 1