Technology 1
Frogs 1
8/22/22 Vocab
Frogs 2
Technology 2
100

This stands for Revolutions Per Minute.

What is RPM?

100

The male frog is smaller than this

What is the female?

100

 the rotating part of a mechanical device

What is a rotor?

100

Since the 1950s, more than this many species of frogs have been threatened with extinction and over 120 are believed to have become extinct since the 1980s.

What is one third?

100

The numbers that represent the voice signal are packed up into this kind of wave and sent out from the phone's antenna

What is radio?

200

This man finally built the world's first practical helicopter in 1939

Who is Sikorsky?/Who is Igor Sikorsky?

200

Frogs are found from the tropics to subarctic regions, but the greatest concentration of species diversity is in this

What is tropical rainforest?

200

a structure with curved surfaces designed to give the most favorable ratio of lift to drag in flight

What is an airfoil?

200

Frogs camouflage themselves in one of these two ways

What is blend with their backgrounds?/ What is change colors?

200

A tiny microphone in the cell phone converts the up-and-down sounds of your voice into a pattern of this

What is electrical signals?

300

Airfoils are wings that have this kind of cross-section

What is curved?

300

Frogs have this kind of skin, with secretions ranging from distasteful to toxic

What is glandular?

300

the information fed into a computer or computer program

What is input?

300

Frogs breed this often

What is annual?/What is once a year?

300

This is the main bridge between all the computer’s major parts

What is CPU?/What is the Central Processing Unit?

400

Helicopters have airfoils built into their rotor blades, which spin around at high speed, typically about this many RPM on a small helicopter.

What is 450?

400

The flying frogs (Rhacophorus) can glide up to this far by means of expanded webbing between the fingers and toes

What is 50 feet?

400

a set of equipment used to generate and transmit electromagnetic waves carrying messages or signals

What is a transmitter?

400

Frogs eat insects, other small arthropods, or worms, but several of them also eat other frogs, rodents, and reptiles. This makes them this kind of eaters

What is carnivorous?

400

This acts as the home for all other components of the computer

What is the motherboard?/What is motherboard?

500

In the helicopter, the rotor blades are connected to this

What is hub?/What is the hub?

500

The goliath frog of West Africa reaches lengths of this and weighs 7.2 pounds

What is 12.5 inches?

500

the rate at which a vibration occurs that constitutes a wave

What is frequency?

500

This means being a sign to show what's in the environment

What is a bellwether?

500

Random Access Memory is a computer component where this is stored.

What is data?

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