Cl Notes 57-75

Question 1

What does the amplifier do?

Answer 1

It takes a small electric signal, and converts it into a big one.

Question 2

Were are amplifiers used?

Answer 2

Stereo systems, electric guitars, computer speakers, and hundreds of other electic items

Question 3

Apollo Program was a series of what?

Answer 3

Space flights

Question 4

What did the Apollo program do?

Answer 4

Land a man on the moon

Question 5

Who was Neil Armstrong?

Answer 5

First man on the moon

Question 6

Who was the first man in the moon?

Answer 6

Neil Armstrong

Question 7

Artificial intelligence is in what?

Answer 7

Computers, robots, and other devices.

Question 8

What are the initials for Artificial intelligence?

Answer 8

AI

Question 9

We’re was Alexander Graham Bell born?

Answer 9

Scotland

Question 10

Wo did he help?

Answer 10

The deaf

Question 11

The Bell Telephone was a result of what?

Answer 11

Bella’s work

Question 12

What did Alexander Graham Bell make?

Answer 12

The Bell Telephone

Question 13

Binary is anything that composes of what?

Answer 13

2 parts

Question 14

A Binary part can act like what?

Answer 14

A switch

Question 15

A bit is the smallest what?

Answer 15

Unit of storage

Question 16

What is a bit?

Answer 16

Unit of storage

Question 17

What is a sonic boom?

Answer 17

A sharp, explosive sound

Question 18

What does a sonic boom travel at?

Answer 18

Speeds faster than the speed of sound

Question 19

Where are bytes used?

Answer 19

In computer technology

Question 20

What is a byte?

Answer 20

Unit of storage

Question 21

What is Celsius used for?

Answer 21

Taking temperatures

Question 22

What is the freezing point in Celsius?

Answer 22

Zero degrees

Question 23

Where was Chernobyl?

Answer 23

A place in Ukraine

Question 24

When did the Chernobyl event happen?

Answer 24

In 1986

Question 25

What is a computer program?

Answer 25

A program that enters the computer

Question 26

Some computer viruses are what?

Answer 26

Mild, but others can be destructive

Question 27

What are Cryogenics concerned of the behavior of?

Answer 27

Materials at low temperatures.

Question 28

Cryogenics are particularly interested in what?

Answer 28

Materials near absolute zero

Question 29

What century was Thomas Edison involved in?

Answer 29

The late 19th and early 20th century

Question 30

Thomas Edison was an American what?

Answer 30

Inventor

Question 31

What did Thomas Edison originate?

Answer 31

A proverb: Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration

Question 32

What was Thomas Edison referred to as?

Answer 32

Wizard of Melo park

Question 33

Mass media is 20th century what?

Answer 33

Newspapers, motion pictures, radio, television, and magazines

Question 34

What is mass media capable of delivering?

Answer 34

Information

Question 35

The Meltdown was the most what?

Answer 35

Serious accident occurred by a nuclear reactor

Question 36

What is the material in a meltdown?

Answer 36

Radio active material