Mechanical engineering
The force preventing objects from continuing to move forever when pushed.
What is Friction?
This keyword is used to define a function in Python.
What is def?
Which of the following is NOT a greenhouse gas? a) water vapor b) nitrous oxide c) artificial fertilizers d) carbon dioxide
c) artificial fertilizers
Measure of an individual's impact on the environment by calculating Greenhouse gas emissions from their lifestyle (i.e. consumption and transportation)
What is carbon footprint
This is the value of the mathematical constant π (pi) up to four decimal places.
What is 3.1415
What is newtons third law of motion?
This principle states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
This data structure in Python is used to store multiple items in a single variable and is mutable.
What is a list?
True or False: The Greenhouse Effect allows heat or infared energy from Earth's surface to pass directly out through the atmosphere and back into space.
False
Although these chemicals promote plant growth on farms, gardens, and golf courses they become extremely harmful when they enter the atmosphere and waterways.
What are fertilizers or pesticides
In geometry, this type of triangle has all three sides of different lengths.
What is a scalene triangle?
What units does the Reynolds number use?
The Reynolds number is unitless and dimensionless.
This type of error occurs at runtime when a program tries to access an index that is outside the bounds of a list.
What is an IndexError?
Which country produces the most carbon dioxide in total each year?
China
Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emitted from industries and cars combine with precipitation in the atmosphere to form this.
What is acid rain
This branch of mathematics deals with rates of change and slopes of curves.
What is calculus?
View used on a drawing to show a hidden part of the object by cutting away.
What is section view?
In object-oriented programming, this concept describes the ability of different objects to respond to the same method call in different ways.
What is polymorphism?
Which planet has an atmosphere with an extreme greenhouse effect?
Venus
An increase in the concentration of chemical nutrients (i.e. phosphates and nitrates) in a body of water that promotes excessive algae growth which then depletes the amount of oxygen available to other organisms
What is eutrophication
The solution to the equation x² - 4 = 0 are these two numbers.
What are +2 and -2?
What is the Carnot cycle?
This thermodynamic cycle, consisting of two isothermal and two adiabatic processes, describes the ideal heat engine.
This sorting algorithm repeatedly selects the smallest element from the unsorted portion and moves it to the beginning.
What is selection sort?
This dam produces enough hydroelectric power to serve 1.3 million people in Nevada, California, and Arizona
What is the Hoover Dam
Term used to describe cities that have consistently higher temperatures than surrounding areas because of a greater retention of heat from buildings, concrete, and asphalt.
What is the heat island effect
The speed of light in a vacuum is approximately this value, measured in meters per second.
The speed of light in vacuum is 3 × 10^8 m / s