Flashcards in Spring 2020 Deck (17)
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GEOGRAPHIC ABBREV.: MB: This Canadian province

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Manitoba

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BODIES OF WATER: Churchill, Manitoba, population 921, is one of the largest communities on this vast bay

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The Hudson Bay

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MAMMALS: Beneath the white fur, the skin of this bear is black, which helps absorb heat from the sun

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Polar Bear

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CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY, EH?: Canada’s Mackenzie River flows into this ocean

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Arctic Ocean

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ANIMATED DISNEY VILLAINS: Ursula the sea witch

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Little Mermaid

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THE EYES HAVE IT: The eyes have these 2 types of receptor cells; one gives color vision, the other black and white vision in dim light

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rods and cones

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AROUND THE BODY: A full set of adult human teeth includes this many canines

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four

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ONLY GEOGRAPHY: The only continent without glaciers

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Australia

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U.S. FACTS and FIGURES: Each year U.S. fossil fuels emit around 5 billion metric tons of this gas

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CO2 (carbon dioxide)

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WOMEN OF SCIENCE: Daughter of Lord Byron, Ada Lovelace created one of these for a machine devised by Charles Babbage

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code (computer program)

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FEMALE INVENTORS: Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, is said by some to be the first programmer, as she used this number system

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binary

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2.0: This company says its 7th generation Core i7 processors speed up your computer with turbo boost technology 2.0

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Intel

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COMPUTER GENIUSES: A real mensch, William D. Mensch, designed the processors in Wozniak & Jobs’ early computers from this company

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Apple

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6-LETTER CROSSWORD CLUES: The ancients could count on it

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abacus

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COMPUTER HISTORY: Punch-card tabulators vastly reduced the time needed to conduct the 1890 census and save taxpayers millions; They were created by Herman Hollerith, the father of modern automatic computation, who founded what is, today, this three-letter business giant

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IBM

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APPLE: Steve Wozniak said this co-founder came up with the name Apple after working at an orchard in Oregon

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Steve Jobs

17
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LIFE OF PI: In 1949 this acronymical computer found pi to more than 2,000 digits; modern ones have passed 2 quadrillion

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ENIAC