This describes a deterministic theory of physics. For example, we can know the exact position and velocity of an object.
What is classical mechanics?
100
The Universe is this many years old, while the Solar System is this many years old.
What is 13.8 billion years?, 4.567 billion years old?
100
Prosopagnosia does not make one stupid. It actually means this.
What is the inability to recognize faces?
100
One member of a pair of different forms of a gene that is located at a specific position on a specific chromosome
What is an allele?
100
Photons, W-Bosons, Z-Bosons, and Gluons are these.
What are force carriers?
200
This principle states that the position and momentum of a particle cannot be simultaneously measured with arbitrarily high precision.
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
200
This explains why we don't notice the effects of the Late Heavy Bombardment on the Earth, while we notice the effects on our Moon.
The Earth is an active planet with climate change and plate tectonics.
200
This is how one would execute the Gazzaniga experiment.
What is ---?
200
These are 5 forces that destroy populations.
What are Habitat Fragmentation, Small Census Population (Random Effects, Isolation), Random Environmental Disturbances, Small Effective Population (Loss of Genetic Diversity, Inbreeding)
200
This is a description of the Schrodinger's Cat Experiment.
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300
These are Feynman's Four Experiments.
Describe them.
300
This is the first form of life that emerged on earth, as recorded by humans. They arrived this many years ago.
What are stromatolites? 3.2 Ga
300
Many people volunteer to have their corpus collosum severed mainly because they suffer from this.
What is intractable epilepsy?
300
Measures the average number of alleles per locus in a population
What is allelic diversity?
300
This is the difference between nuclear energy and chemical energy.
Nuclei are either fissioned or fused so that new elements are formed in the process in nuclear energy, while elements combine or dissociate due to the interactions of electrons, but the same elements remain after the changes in chemical energy.
400
This quantum mechanics interpretation model states particle does not relinquish all but one possible outcome when it is measured. Instead, all the possible outcomes embodied by the particle’s wave function actually happen – but in different universes.
What is the Many Worlds interpretation?
400
We assume that there is a lot of this element in zircons and none of this element.
What is a lot of uranium and no lead?
400
(Must listen to the whole answer) This test proceeds in this way: if you inject amobarbital into carotid artery on one side, you will briefly anesthetize hemisphere on that side. In this version at Univ.of Washington, doctor asks patient to raise both hands and point all fingers to ceiling. Then the patient is asked to name objects. 100 mg of amobarbital is injected into left carotid. The right arm drops. Left side asleep. Doctor asks patient to name objects. Or read from a card. After a few minutes the patient’s left hemisphere “wakes up”. Then amobarbital is injected into right carotid. The left arm drops. Right side asleep. After a few minutes the patient’s right hemisphere “wakes up”. Test is done. Doctor asks patient to name objects. Or read from a card. For most people: Right-sided injection (right hemisphere “asleep”): left arm drops & speech continues. Left-sided injection (left hemisphere “asleep”): right arm drops & speech stops. Conclude: Speech depends upon left hemisphere in most people.
What is the Wada Test?
400
A species generally lasts this length of time.
What is 1-10 million years?
400
This is a nuclear reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei collide at very high speeds and join to form a new type of atomic nucleus.
What is fusion?
500
Gravity (long range - planets), Electricity & Magnetism (long range - molecular bonds), Weak Force (short range -- nuclear decay), Strong Force (short range - nuclear bonds)
What are the Four Fundamental Forces of Nature?
500
The Earth was so hot during the Hadean Period for these reasons.
What are meteorite impacts, radioactive decay, and formation of the Earth's core?
500
This is a syndrome in which a patient loses the ability to perceive visual motion.
What is akinetopsia?
500
This means meeting current human needs without undermining the capacity of the natural environment to provide for those needs over the long term.
What is environmental sustainability?
500
This quantum mechanics interpretation model states that the interaction with the surrounding environment destroys quantum interference.