Paleontology
Are you allowed to dig up fossils?
What objective lens was not allowed to be used in the lab?
The 100x (the one with the black stripe).
What is the thing that is sent between devices called?
A packet.
What body parts do we use for taste?
Nose and tongue!
What happens to you when if you end up in the middle of space with no protection?
You burn up (your organs and guts spill out of wherever they can).
What is a potential cause of fossils not remaining intact?
water erodes away the bone.
What is the difference between a dissecting microscope and the compound microscope?
This IP tells you where the packet is coming from
Source IP (srcIP)
What is the purpose of psychology?
To understand human behaviour.
Staring at an oddly coloured image followed by looking at a white screen creates a picture.
This is an after image.
After the dust and debris have been removed from the bone what is done to the fossil to keep it intact?
It is covered in glue.
Explain the steps of preparing a slide.
Grab a clean slide, use the pipette to collect pond water, add a single drop to the slide, empty the pipette, grab a clean cover slip, touch the edge of the drop with one side of the cover slip to create a seal, drop the rest of the cover slip over the drop (this prevents air bubbles).
This IP tells you where the packet is headed
Destination IP (dstlIP)
When trying to read words that are coloured incorrectly the person is more likely to read slower or make more mistakes.
The stroop effect.
What is the difference between a weather watch vs. a weather warning?
Weather watch - All the things required for a weather event to occur are there but it is not guaranteed to happen.
Weather warning - The weather event is happening do what is required to be safe.
True or False? The fossil at the back of the museum was of a real dinosaur.
False! It was a combination of different dinosaurs making it a fake dinosaur.
What is methyl cellulose used for?
It slows the creatures down so they are easier to see, but it's toxic to them and slowly kills them over time.
What are the three different kinds of threats we learned about?
Fabrication (spoofing), Interception (stealing packets/man-in-the-middle), and Interruption (DoS)
Why would someone not notice the gorilla walking past the people playing basketball?
Selective attention or inattentional blindness.
What colour do tigers appear to deer and why?
They appear green because deer are dichromatic (they have two coloured cones instead of the three that humans have, that means they see less colours).
What was the name of the rarest fossil currently at the UofA?
Baby
Name one creature that could be found during the lab.
Leeches, Flies, Water mites, Segmented worm, Amphipods, Cyclops, Rotifers, Gastrotrichs, Green algae, Amoeba, Euglenozoa, Ciliates, Diatoms, Cyanobacteria.
What is one of the goals of a security engineer? (CIA)
C - Confidentiality (encryption), I - Integrity, A - Availability
Name the personality traits in the big five.
OCEAN (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism).
Who discovered the shape of DNA (the double helix)?
Rosalind Franklin