C. L. TEST 76-100

Question 1

76. What is a nanosecond?

Answer 1

A billionth of a second

Question 2

76. What is nanosecond referred to?

Answer 2

A very short time

Question 3

77. What is nanotechnology?

Answer 3

A branch of technology devoted to producing devices on an atomic scale

Question 4

77. How big is the working part in nanotechnology?

Answer 4

Few thousands atoms in width

Question 5

78. What is neural networks?

Answer 5

A computer system that is designed to mimic the human brain or other biological system in its functioning

Question 7

79. What is offshore drilling?

Answer 7

The operation of oil wells in the continental shelf

Question 8

79. What are the public debates on oil drilling debating?

Answer 8

Possibility of large oil spills

Question 9

80. What is a perpetual-motion machine?

Answer 9

A machine that can run on forever

Question 10

80. What are the factors for a perpetual-motion machine?

Answer 10

It would have to produce at least enough energy as was needed for operation

Question 11

81. What is a RADAR?

Answer 11

A method of firing the position and velocity of an object by bouncing a radio wave off it and analyzing the reflected wave

Question 12

81. What does RADAR stand for?

Answer 12

R-radio D-detection A-and R-ranging

Question 13

82. What is radioactive waste?

Answer 13

Radioactive materials that may be left after a commercial or laboratory process that has been carried out

Question 14

82. What is low waste material?

Answer 14

Objects that have touched the radioactive tracers used in certain medical tests

Question 15

83. What is software?

Answer 15

The programs and instructions that run a computer

Question 16

83. What does software oppose?

Answer 16

The actual physical machinery and devices that compose the hardware

Question 17

84. What is the spirt of St. Louis?

Answer 17

A specially designed airplane that Charles lindberg flew in the first non stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean

Question 18

84. Where’s is the spirit of St. Louis located now?

Answer 18

The smithsonian institute in Washington, D.C.

Question 20

85. What is sputniks?

Answer 20

A series of saviet satellites launched in 1957 and in following years

Question 21

85. What time is sputniks referred to as?

Answer 21

Post-Sputnik boom

Question 22

86. What does SST stand for?

Answer 22

S-super S-sonic transport

Question 23

86. What is a SST?

Answer 23

A commercial aircraft that flies faster than the speed of sound

Question 23

87. What is stealth technology?

Answer 23

The use of advanced design and specialized materials

Question 24

87. When was stealth technology first used?

Answer 24

Persian gulf war

Question 25

88. Who were the wright brothers?

Answer 25

American inventors and mechanics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Question 26

88. Where/when was the wright brothers first plane created?

Answer 26

Kitty hawk, NC in 1903

Question 27

89. What is an Achilles' tendon?

Answer 27

Tendon connecting the heel bone and the calf muscle of the leg

Question 28

89. Who was Achilles?

Answer 28

A greek legend that could only be wounded in the heel

Question 29

90. What is acupuncture?

Answer 29

Technique for curing disease, relieving pain, and bringing about anesthesia

Question 30

90. Where'd did acupuncture originate?

Answer 30

China

Question 31

91. What does AIDS stand for?

Answer 31

Acronym for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Question 32

91. What are AIDS?

Answer 32

A fatal disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus or HIV

Question 33

92. Where'd AIDS originate?

Answer 33

Africa

Question 34

92. How many people have been infected with AIDS?

Answer 34

65 million people

Question 35

93. What is alcoholism?

Answer 35

A chronic disease with the excessive and habitual consumption of alcohol

Question 36

93. What are alcoholisms affects?

Answer 36

Abnormal heart rhythms, certain cancers, birth defects/subsequent abnormalities, and with the loss of appetite, poor nutrition

Question 37

94. What is anorexia nervosa?

Answer 37

A psychosomatic disorder in which the sufferer refuses to eat and undertakes activities to being about extreme weight loss

Question 38

94. What are anorexia nervosa's affects?

Answer 38

Death if treatment not obtained

Question 39

95. What is bacterial infection?

Answer 39

An infection caused by bacteria

Question 40

95.What are bacterial infections affects?

Answer 40

Diphtheria, tuberculosis, and typhoid fever

Question 41

96. What is benign?

Answer 41

A descriptive term meaning no danger in life

Question 42

96. What is the term benign used for?

Answer 42

Rumors that are no threaten to the individual

Question 43

97. What is biofeedback?

Answer 43

A training technique by which a person learns how to regulate certain body functions, such as heart rate, blood pressure or brain wave patterns that are considered to be involuntary

Question 44

97. What has biofeedback had success in doing?

Answer 44

Chronic headaches and back pain

Question 45

98. What is blood pressure?

Answer 45

The pressure of the blood against the walls of the blood vessels, especially the arteries

Question 46

98. What is the systolic and diastolic pressures?

Answer 46

Systolic- left ventricle pushing | Diastolic- ventricle relaxes and fills with blood

Question 47

99. What is blood type?

Answer 47

One of many groups into which a persons blood can be categorized, based upon the presence or absence of specific antigens in blood

Question 48

99. What kind of blood types are there?

Answer 48

A,B,AB,O

Question 48

78. What were neural networks designed for?

Answer 48

Deal with problems, like pattern recognition

Question 49

100. What are blood vessels?

Answer 49

The flexible tubular canals through which blood circulates the body

Question 50

100. What are types of blood vessels?

Answer 50

Capillaries, veins and arteries