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100

This data structure uses FIFO (first in, first out).

What is a queue?

100

Within the theory of economics, this curve usually slopes downward because as price goes up, people buy less.

What is demand?

100

In color theory, colors opposite each other on the wheel are called _____________ colors.

What are complementary colors?

100

This is the tendency of an object to resist changes in its motion.

What is inertia?

100

This cellular "powerhouse" is where most ATP is produced.

What are mitochondria?

200

In Java/C++, this term defines a function that has the same name as another function but different parameters.

What is method overloading? (Also accept function overloading)

200

In finance, this term refers to the chance that an investment's actual return will differ from what is expected.

What is risk?

200

In photography/film, this classic "rule" places key subjects along a 3x3 grid to improve composition.

What is the rule of thirds?

200

In circuits, this law states that voltage equals current times resistance.

What is Ohm's Law?

200

This is the SI unit of force, with the following units: (kg * m)/s2

What is a newton?

300

In software design, this term describes separating "what it does" from "how it's implemented".

What is abstraction?

300

In marketing, the "4 Ps" are Product, Price, Place, and this.

What is promotion?

300

In motion graphics, this technique smooths animations by defining speed changes with a curve.

What is easing?

300

In dynamics, angular acceleration is the time derivative of this quantity.

What is angular velocity?

300

This neurotransmitter is famously associated with reward prediction and Parkinson's disease.

What is dopamine?

400

In concurrency, this bug occurs when program behavior changes based on unpredictable thread scheduling.

What is a race condition?

400

In managerial accounting, costs that do not change with output (like rent) are called ___ costs.

What are fixed costs?

400

In user research, a "most-used path" diagram showing where users click and focus attention is often visualized as this.

What is a heatmap?

400

This failure mode happens when a slender column suddenly bows under compressive load.

What is buckling?

400

This medical specialty focuses on autoimmune and inflammatory diseases affecting joints, connective tissue, and more.

What is rheumatology?

500

In REST APIs, this property means that making the same request multiple times has the same effect as making it once.

What is idempotency?

500

This term means the extra benefit you get from one more unit (such as one more hour of studying).

What is marginal benefit?

500

In film, when audio is produced by the scene world (a radio, footsteps), it’s ____ sound.

What is diegetic sound?

500

This is the phenomenon in vibrations where an external forcing frequency matches a system's natural frequency, resulting in maximum energy transfer and large amplitude oscillations.

What is resonance?

500

In organic chemistry, this reaction type adds H2 across a double bond, often using a metal catalyst such as Pd/C.

What is hydrogenation?

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