TSA History
What year was TSA founded?
1978
What process is used to design something to solve an engineering problem?
Engineering Design Process
What does increasing exposure on a camera do?
It widens the camera's aperture and keeps it open longer, making the photo brighter.
0.5 times 0.25 =
0.125
What are the three main types of subatomic particles?
Protons
Neutrons
Electrons
What type of student organization is TSA?
Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO)
Name the four forces of flight.
Thrust
Lift
Drag
Weight
Which coding language is primarily used to code websites?
HTML
What is the tens digit of this sum?
12,345 + 56,789
4
Who is credited with creating the Theory of Evolution?
Charles Darwin and/or Alfred Russel Wallace
What was TSA originally named when it was created?
American Industrial Arts Student Association (AIASA)
What type of bridge is held up using wires that connect from a few central towers?
Suspension Bridge
What is temporal order in Motion Graphic Design?
The chronological/time-based sequence of different events in the design.
If two standard, fair 6-sided dice are rolled, what is the probability that the product of the two numbers rolled is a perfect square? Express your answer as a common fraction.
What is the atomic mass of a water molecule to the nearest AMU?
60
Name the past 3 TSA National Conference Themes from first to last.
Evolution of Excellence
Tune into Technology
Unity through Community
What is the power in watts of a simple lamp with a current of 0.5 amps and a resistance of 160 ohms?
What is the name for a data structure that stores values and definitions for these values in an editable, ordered manner?
Dictionary
What is the area of the region in the first quadrant that lies between the lines x + 3y = 12 and x + 3y = 18?
30
Name the three main steps of cellular respiration (Scientific Names only).
Glycolysis
Tricarboxylic Cycle
Oxidative Phosphorylation
How many years ago was the COTSA Delegation founded?
40 or 41
Name the 6 Characteristics of a satellite orbit.
Inclination (angle of the orbital plane)
Eccentricity (How elliptical the orbit is)
Semi-major axis (furthest distance from center)
Right Ascension of the Ascending Node (Where the orbit points towards)
Argument of Periapsis (angle between Semi-Major Axis and Ascending Node)
True Anomaly (location on orbit)
What does CAPTCHA stand for?
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.
What value of x yields the minimum value of the sum | x − 20 | + | x − 21 | + | x − 22 | + | x − 23 | + ⋯ + | x − 210 |?
32
Name the 5 Dwarf Planets in our Solar System in increasing order of size.
Ceres
Makemake
Haumea
Eris
Pluto