Description : Using the fewest names of the members of this family, identify the tree family which includes among its members the: Chinese, cut-leaved, manchurian, persian, english, black and american. Name the tree family.
Last Answer : ANSWER: WALNUT
Description : Using the fewest names of the members of this family, identify the tree family which includes among its members the: Pignut, scarit, mockernut, bitternut, black and shagbark. Name the tree family.
Last Answer : ANSWER: HICKORY
Description : Using the fewest names of the members of this family, identify the tree family which includes among its members the: Fink, myrtle, turkey, jacks, laurel, white, live and pin. Name the tree family.
Last Answer : ANSWER: OAK
Description : With many thousands of species, this is one of the largest families in the plant kingdom. Identify this plant family which includes among its members the: Brome, Love, Foxtail, Sudan, Buffalo, Saint Augustine, Burmuda and Blue.
Last Answer : ANSWER: GRASS or GRAMINACEAE
Description : Name the order of insects which includes among its members the: Hawk, Death's Head, Brown-Tail, Carpenter, Clear-Winged, Clothes and Gypsy. Name this insect order.
Last Answer : ANSWER: MOTHS / BUTTERFLIES (accept Lepidopterw)
Description : The principle species of this tree family include the: Black, Eastern, Mountain, Canadian, Formosan, Western and Carolina. Name this tree.
Last Answer : ANSWER: HEMLOCK
Description : What vitamin complex includes thiamine, niacin, and riboflavin?
Last Answer : ANSWER: VITAMIN B
Description : In 1976, Congress enacted the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act designed to protect public health and the environment from improper management of hazardous waste. The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act categorizes hazardous wastes into four groups. Identify three of the four groups.
Last Answer : ANSWER: TOXIC (POISONOUS), REACTIVE, IGNITABLE, AND CORROSIVE
Description : Wmong well-known examples of this formation are Grindelwald in Switzerland, Bossons in France, Dinwoody in the United States, and Wilson Piedmont in Antarctica. Identify these cool formations.
Last Answer : ANSWER: GLACIERS
Description : Identify the Earth's largest INVERTEBRATE animal.
Last Answer : ANSWER: GIANT SQUID
Description : The following are the names of man-made structures in the United States. Identify the type of structure. Hungry Horse, Yellowtail, Dworshak, Don Pedro, Cougar, Glen Canyon, Grand Coulee and Hoover. Name the type of structure.
Last Answer : ANSWER: DAMS
Description : Members of the order Apodes, these elongated slender fishes are without pelvic fins and in some species lack pectoral or median GENR-92; Short Answer: What is a shark's skeleton made of?
Last Answer : ANSWER: CARTILAGE
Description : This black engineer was granted a patent in 1872 for the first automatic oil lubricator. The lubricating cup regulated the flow of oil onto moving parts of machines, revolutionizing the machine industry. ... well-known inventor: w) Elijah McCoy x) Lewis Latimer y) Leonard McFall z) Branville Woods
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- ELIJAH McCOY
Description : Taxol is a drug currently being used to treat cancer, particularly resistant forms of breast cancer. A natural source of Taxol is: w) bark and leaves of the yew tree x) apricot pits y) periwinkle flowers z) ginkgo leaves
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- BARK AND LEAVES OF THE YEW TREE
Description : Only one tree is known to live longer than the Giant Sequoia. Is this tree: w) Bristlecone pine x) Grey Oak y) Japanese Chestnut z) Ponderosa pine
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- BRISTLECONE PINE
Description : Name the tropical American tree which produces the least dense wood known?
Last Answer : ANSWER: XALSA
Description : What state in the United States has the most nuclear power plants? w) New York x) Illinois y) Pennsylvania z) South Carolina
Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- ILLINOIS
Description : This woman scientist was the oldest daughter of another very well-known woman scientist. She was the second woman in history to win a Nobel Prize in science, receiving the prize in 1935 for her work in synthesizing new radioactive elements. Who is this famous woman scientist?
Last Answer : ANSWER: IRENE JOLIET-CURIE
Description : What is the name for the new technology whereby a glass fiber carries as much information as hundreds of copper wires?
Last Answer : ANSWER: FIBER OPTICS (OPTO-ELECTRONICS)
Description : Evaporation from water surfaces exposed to air is not dependent of the: w) velocity of the wind x) humidity y) temperature z) depth of the water
Last Answer : ANSWER: Z -- DEPTH OF THE WATER
Description : If you started with 100 grams of each of the materials below and they all vaporized inside of an inflatable balloon, which of them would produce the largest volume balloon, assuming they were all at the same temperature? w) water x) gasoline y) ethanol z) butane
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- WATER
Description : "Hard" water is related to the presence of high concentrations of primarily four metal ions in water supplies. Calcium and magnesium ions are the most common of the four. Name one of the other two ions.
Last Answer : ANSWER: IRON AND MANGANESE
Description : In the United States the average number of gallons per person of fresh water used per day for personal (non-industrial) use such as bathing, laundering, drinking, and the like is approximately: w) 10 gallons x) 30 gallons y) 60 gallons z) 90 gallons
Last Answer : ANSWER: Z -- 90 GALLONS
Description : Which two gases are used to disinfect water in sewage treatment facilities? w) helium and nitrogen x) ozone and chlorine y) oxygen and hydrogen z) nitrogen and chlorine
Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- OZONE AND CHLORINE
Description : A psychrometer (pron: si-'kro-me-ter) is used to measure humidity. It consists of two thermometers, one of which is wetted. The water is allowed to evaporate. Which thermometer reads the higher temperature. w) the wet one x) the dry one
Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- THE DRY ONE
Description : What is the major visible constituent of the exhaust plume from a natural gas-fired power plant? w) carbon dioxide x) carbon monoxide y) smoke z) water
Last Answer : ANSWER: Z -- WATER
Description : What is the mass in grams of one cubic centimeter of water?
Last Answer : ANSWER: ONE GRAM
Description : Wt what Celsius temperature is water the densest?
Last Answer : ANSWER: 4 DEGREES CELSIUS
Description : What substance was used as a moderator for the chain reaction in the first nuclear reactor? w) graphite x) boron y) water z) cadmium
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- GRAPHITE
Description : Most of the nuclear power plants operating in the United States are: w) pressurized water reactors x) boiling water reactors y) high-temperature gas-cooled reactors z) liquid-metal fast breeder reactors
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- PRESSURIZED WATER REACTORS
Description : An important safety feature required at U.S. nuclear power plants that was not present at the Chernobyl Power Plant in the Soviet Union was the: w) reactor x) cooling water y) control rods z) containment building
Last Answer : ANSWER: Z -- CONTAINMENT BUILDING
Description : Most commercial nuclear power plants worldwide are cooled by: w) sodium x) mercury y) helium z) water
Description : Seawater (i.e. saltwater) freezes at: w) the same temperature as fresh water. x) at a slightly higher temperature than fresh water. y) at a slightly lower temperature than fresh water. z) seawater does not freeze.
Last Answer : ANSWER: Y -- AT A SLIGHTLY LOWER TEMPERATURE THAN FRESH WATER.
Description : Water flows through a horizontal pipe at a constant volumetric rate. At a location where the cross sectional area decreases, the velocity of the fluid: w) increases x) decreases y) stays the same
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- INCREASES
Description : In 1991, the frozen body of a late stone age man was found amazingly intact in the Alps near the Italian-Austrian border. Its age was determined to be about: w) 2,200 years x) 5,300 years y) 12,800 years z) 30,000 years
Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- 5,300 YEARS
Description : Name this much publicized group of compounds, of which there are 209 congeners. It was first discovered as an environmental pollutant in 1966, and its widespread use in electrical transformers has ... food chain to such an extent that most adults have small concentrations in their fatty tissue.
Last Answer : ANSWER: PCB's (Accept POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL'S)
Description : What science deals with the structure of the universe and its origin?
Last Answer : ANSWER: YOSMOLOGY
Description : Name the branch of medical science which is concerned with the study of disease as it appears in its natural surroundings, and as it affects a community of people rather than a single individual.
Last Answer : ANSWER: EPIDEMIOLOGY
Description : As of December, 1990, which of the following countries generated the greatest percentage of its electricity by nuclear power? w) England x) Japan y) United States z) France
Last Answer : ANSWER: Z -- FRANCE
Description : Spent fuel from a nuclear power plant cools down and loses most of its radioactivity through decay. In the first year, spent fuel loses about what percentage of its radioactivity? w) 10 percent x) 50 percent y) 80 percent z) 100 percent
Last Answer : ANSWER: Y -- 80 PERCENT
Description : The per capita birth rate of a population is known as its: w) mortality x) natality (pron: nay-tal-eh-ty) y) population density z) carrying capacity
Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- NATALITY
Description : What is the name of the largest North American terrestrial rodent, distinguished by its spiny covering?
Last Answer : ANSWER: PORCUPINE
Description : he system of ............... generally ran one job at a time. These were called single stream batch processing. A) 40's B) 50's C) 60's D) 70's
Last Answer : B) 50's
Description : Distemper is used to coat a) External concrete services b) Internal surfaces not exposed to weather* c) Woodwork d) Compound walls
Last Answer : b) Internal surfaces not exposed to weather*
Description : 10. Catalytic converters are fitted into automobiles to reduce emission of harmful gases. Catalytic converters change un burnt hydrocarbons into (a) carbon dioxide and water (b) carbon mono oxide (c) methane (d) carbon dioxide and methane.
Last Answer : (a) carbon dioxide and water
Description : For a DC motor, what major component in addition to the field winding and the armature winding is necessary? w) a commutator x) a stator y) a battery z) a rotor
Last Answer : ANSWER: W -- A COMMUTATOR
Description : Dante is the name of an eight-legged robot designed to repel into the crater of Erebus. This volcano is located in w) Italy x) the Hawaiian chain y) Antarctica z) Japan
Last Answer : ANSWER: Y -- ANTARCTICA
Description : Who is known as the Father of the Atomic Bomb? w) Albert Einstein x) J. Robert Oppenheimer y) General Leslie Groves z) Edward Teller
Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
Description : Movement exhibited by plants toward the "center of the Earth" is called?
Last Answer : ANSWER: GEOTROPISM
Description : What is the phase relationship between the voltage and current in a capacitor?
Last Answer : ANSWER: X -- CURRENT LEADS BY 90 DEGREES