J! Science and Tech (and formerly Nature and Animals) Flashcards by Jen Kennings

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acid vitamin C

A

ascorbic acid

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Danish physicist 1900s

A

Niels Bohr

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CH4

A

methane

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first artificial heart

A

Jarvik 7

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discovered Pluto and Mars canals

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Percival Lowell

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English woman studied chimpanzees in Tanzania

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Jane Goodall

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American woman studied mountain gorillas in Rwanda

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Dian Fossey

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American archaeologist Olduvai Gorge skull

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Mary Leakey

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cluster of sister stars

A

Pleiades

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warm Pacific current 3-7 years

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El Nino

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islets of Langerhans location

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pancreas

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father of the nuclear submarine/nuclear navy

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Hyman Rickover

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nephrite gem

A

jade

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nerve that causes “hitting your funny bone”

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ulnar nerve

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bright spots around the moon during a solar eclipse

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Baily’s beads

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ACL full name

A

anterior cruciate ligament

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movable part of airplane wing

A

aileron

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word for light particle

A

photon

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first commercially available computer

A

UNIVAC

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extinct bear

A

cave bear

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discovered oxygen

A

Joseph Priestley

Q

Defense Department internet precursor

A

ARPANET

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good cholesterol

A

HDL

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French microbiologist

A

Pasteur

vitamin B3/nicotinic acid

niacin

"handy man" human ancestor

Homo habilis

Russian-American father of TV invented kinescope, iconoscope

Vladimir Zworykin

limestone with Italian name

travertine

largest flatfish

halibut

"Persian greyhound" sacred in Egypt

Saluki

dog-sized horse ancestor

eohippus

enclosure of water vapor to trace particle paths

cloud chamber

French Blue new name

Hope Diamond

Optics treatise

Newton

mammoth cousin

mastodon

vitamin B1 name

thiamine

redox reaction components (2)

reduction, oxidation

NH3 chemical

ammonia

first homo erectus, Indonesia

Java Man

marsh gas chemical

methane

self loading Kodak camera

Instamatic

putting silver iodide in the air to make rain

cloud seeding

nuts on car wheels

lug nuts