Air Travel
What is the primary force that counteracts gravity in an aircraft during flight?
Lift
What are the primary sources of space debris?
Broken satellites, used rocket parts, and pieces from crashes or explosions.
What renewable energy source is increasingly being used to power data centers to minimize their carbon impact?
Solar Energy
What is the name for materials that are smaller than 100 nanometers?
Nanoparticles
RAM
Random Access Memory
This design feature on an aircraft wing helps improve aerodynamic efficiency by reducing drag.
Winglets
What is the Kessler Syndrome?
A scenario where increasing space debris density leads to collisions that generate more debris, creating a cascading effect.
What percentage of the world's electricity is consumed by data centres?
10%
This super-strong material made of carbon is used in many high-tech products.
Carbon nanotube?
Wi-Fi
Wireless Fidelity
What term describes the process of managing air traffic to ensure safe distances between aircraft?
Air Traffic Control
Name 4 methods currently being researched to mitigate space debris?
Nets, harpoons, designing satellites for deorbiting, and implementing stricter launch guidelines.
A place where many computers are stored and managed to run websites and services; they use a lot of energy to keep everything running and cool.
Data Centre
How does nanotechnology help medicine by delivering drugs?
It targets specific cells and reduces side effects
HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Name the international treaty that regulates air travel safety and standards.
The Chicago Convention
What is UNOOSA?
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
A way to balance out carbon emissions by investing in projects that reduce or remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, such as planting trees.
Carbon Offset
A thin layer applied to a surface to improve its properties, such as making it waterproof or scratch-resistant, often using nanotechnology.
A coating
VPN
Virtual Private Network
NFC
Near Field Communication