Unit 4 Vocabulary
A standard against which things may be compared.
What is a BENCHMARK?
This type of audience might find a formal scientific paper difficult to follow.
What is a LAY AUDIENCE?
You can't charge your phone with them, but neurons still transmit these kind of signals.
What is ELECTRICAL?
Of a plane, a boat, or a submarine, this is the safest to be in during a lightning storm.
What is a SUBMARINE?
This style is even more informal than informal.
What is CASUAL?
This P word describes the act of pushing or driving something forward.
What is PROPULSION?
This point of view should never be used in a formal scientific paper.
What is SECOND PERSON?
The kind of instruments we used in our nerve density experiment.
What are SLIDE CALIPERS?
The book calculates the height to which a human being could throw a ball by using this unorthodox unit of measurement.
What is a GIRAFFE? (And the answer is 16 giraffes high.)
Informal style is best for spoken presentations, because unlike they can with written text, the audience cannot do this.
What is GO BACK or REREAD?
A tube that uses gravity to move liquid from one container to another.
What is a SIPHON?
The methodology section must be very detailed, because every scientific experiment needs to be able to be this.
What is REPEATED or DUPLICATED?
Axons are the nerve cells that send signals, and these are the cells that receive them.
What are DENDRITES?
If somebody actually built a wall of all the elements on the periodic table, this would be the ultimate result.
What is WORLD DESTRUCTION?
The informal translation of: Efficacy of Malus Domesticus at defending against medical practitioners.
What is: AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY?
This is the dividing line between night and day on a planet (or possibly a killer robot from the future).
What is a TERMINATOR?
In a formal scientific paper, it is important to keep these two elements in separate sections.
What are RESULTS and DISCUSSION? (Or DATA and INTERPRETATION.)
The greatest and smallest distances measured in our nerve density experiment.
What are 2mm and 40mm?
According to the book, a submarine could survive in outer space, but its crew likely wouldn't due to either a lack of air or this other reason.
What is COLD TEMPERATURE?
The informal translation of: Comparative average values of written texts and pictorial images.
What is A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS?
You can't trust this A word that means of doubtful authenticity or origin.
What is APOCRYPHAL?
A scientific paper's introduction should accomplish three principle goals: Introduce the field of study, explain the importance of the experiment, and establish this.
What is the BIG QUESTION?
The technical medical term for a pain receptor.
What is a NOCICEPTOR?
According to the book, this is the country you would need to be in to experience the longest possible sunset.
What is NORWAY?
The informal translation of: Temporal levitation as a consequence of experienced amusement.
What is TIME FLIES WHEN YOU'RE HAVING FUN?