Mechanics and Energy
Newton's 3 laws of motion
What are the law of inertia, force and acceleration, and action and reaction?
The term applied to materials which light cannot pass through
What is opaque?
Example of an acid
What is vinegar, carbonated beverages, or citrus fruits?
The deterioration of metal, typically caused by atmospheric oxygen.
What is corrosion?
Compounds that contain carbon and make up living organisms
What are organic compounds?
A natural or synthetic substance that is used to produce physiological or psychological effects in humans or other higher order animals.
What is a drug?
The composition of a neuron
What is axon, dendrite, and cell body?
Any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins
What is plastic?
A solid inorganic material of the Earth that has both a known chemical composition and a crystalline structure
What is a mineral?
A tool that measure ground motion.
What is a seismograph?
Momentum
What is inertia in motion?
Any two colors that when added produce white light
Complementary colors
Example of a base
An exothermic oxidation
What is combustion?
Smaller subunits that make up all macro organic molecules
What are monomers?
The most common source for narcotic drugs
What is opium?
The space between the neurons
What is the synaptic gap?
The process of chemically producing plastics
What is polymerisation?
A solid aggregate of one or more minerals that have been cohesively brought together by a forming process.
What is a rock?
Three types of faults
What are strike-slip, thrust, and normal?
Work
What is force times distance?
Subtractive primary colors
What are magenta, cyan, and yellow?
A numeric scale used to express the acidity of a solution
What is the pH scale?
The ore used in the manufacturing of aluminum
What is Bauxite?
What are polymers?
Causes marked changes in normal thought processes, perceptions, and moods
What are hallucinogens?
Chemicals that carry messages around in the brain.
What are neurotransmitters?
Common thermoplastics
What are low Density Polyethylene, high Density Polyethylene, Polyethylene, Poly Styrene, Acrylic, and nylon?
Mineral characteristics
What are natural, inorganic, solid, definite composition, and crystal structure?
Modified Mercalli Intensity scale
What is used to determine the size and damage caused by an earthquake?
Two main forms of mechanical energy
What are potential energy and kinetic enegry?
The range of electromagnetic waves extending in frequency from radio waves to gamma rays.
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
Characteristics of acids
What are they taste sour, can burn your skin, and they turn blue litmus paper red?
A reducing agent is ______ as it reduces
What is oxidized?
The removal of water to connect monomers
What is condensation reaction?
The chemical substance largely responsible for the hallucinogenic properties of marijuana.
What is tetrahydrocannabinol or THC?
Communication between brain cells
What is neurotransmission?
Produces tubes, rods and other shaped continuous form lengths. Heated polymer is fed into shaped die by a screw.
What is extrusion?
Three main rock types
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
Located by triangulating between 3 or more seismograph stations, using the arrival times of two or more of the 3 types of earthquake waves
What is the epicenter?
The sources of geothermal energy
What are nuclear energy from radioactive decay or steam energy from hot springs?
The speed of light
What is 300,000 km per second?
A solution that has an excess of OH- ions. Another word for base is alkali.
What is a base?
The operation of coating one metal with another by electrolysis.
What is electroplating?
Another term for nucleic acids
What are RNA and DNA?
Substances used to depress the functions of the central nervous system
What are depressants?
Increasing or decreasing the actual number of receptors to try BALANCE the extremes
What is neuroadaptation?
A measured amount of molten thermoplastic is driven by a ram past a heating system into the mould.
What is injection moulding?
Agents of metamorphism
What are heat and pressure?
Three types of waves
What are P, S, and surface waves?