Chemistry
The smallest unit of an element that retains its properties, composed of protons, neutrons, and electrons.
What is an atom?
This organelle is known as the "powerhouse of the cell".
What is the mitochondria?
The equation F=ma is known as this.
What is Newton's Second Law?
Physical measurement defined as force divided by the area over which the force is being applied.
What is pressure?
The brain of a computer.
What is a CPU (central processing unit)?
The pH of a neutral solution at room temperature.
What is 7?
The acronym DNA stands for this.
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
This law states that energy cannot be created of destroyed, only transferred or transformed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
The linear region of a stress-strain curve before a material becomes permanently deformed.
What is the elastic region?
Uses radio waves to allow high-speed data transfer and network connectivity without cables.
What is Wi-Fi?
A bond formed by the sharing of electrons between atoms.
What is a covalent bond?
The largest organ in the human body.
What is skin?
The value of acceleration due to gravity on Earth.
What is 9.8 m/s or 32.2 ft/s?
This material is composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together (think structural).
What is concrete?
The acronym URL stands for this.
What is Uniform Resource Locator?
What are isotopes?
A cell that lacks a nucleus.
What is a Prokaryotic cell.
This type of mirror is used in a car's rear-view mirror.
What is a convex mirror?
The process in which electrical energy gets transformed into mechanical energy by a motor.
What is electromagnetic induction?
Software with source code that anyone can inspect, modify, and enhance (e.g. Linux).
What is open-source software?
Mercury (Hg) is the only metal that can remain in this phase at room temperature.
What is the liquid phase?
The maintenance of a stable internal environment.
What is homeostasis.
The speed of light in a vaccuum.
What is 3.00 x 10^8 m/s?
Sounding like a Radiohead song, this term refers to the continued extension of an object while under a steady load.
What is creep?
This is often installed to protect a network or device from unauthorized access.
What is a firewall?