Phys. Sci. Final Rev. ch. 8-16

What is the idea that God used evolution to make everything in the world?

What uses lasers to transmit signals through narrow glass tubes?

What converts programming language into machine language for the computer?

What number indicates how many molecules or formula units of a substance are involved in a reaction?

What device uses a narrow strip of metal to prevent excessive current through a circuit?

What are atoms of the same element that have different number of neutrons?

What term refers to the minimum amount of fissionable material required for a chain reaction to occur?

How many bytes in a kilobyte?

What type of material allows current to flow through it with no resistance?

What is one of the ideas used to form the modern theory of evolution?

What is a substance composed of two or more elements bonded together?

What property describes how strongly atoms of an element pull on electrons in a chemical bond?

What type of radiactive decay releases energy without changing the number of prtons and neutrons?

What type of electric discharge lamp passes a spark through a long tube of mercury vapor and argon gas?

What material glows when exposed to radiation?

Who was known as creation science's "bulldog"?

What device uses electromagnetic induction to produce electricity?

What type of current-producing electrochemical cell can be recharged with electricity from an outside source?

What system allows a computer to store programs and information?

Which main group of biological compounds consist of smaller molecules linked by peptide bonds?

What is the extent to which a material can absorb or channel lines of flux?

What are high-frequency waves used in medicine to "see" inside solid objects?

What substances are composed of a single type of atom?

What is the process of mixing molecules of one substance with those of another substance by random molecular motion?

What type of nuclear decay occurs when an unstable atom ejects a clump of two protons and two neutrons?

What is the "brain" of the computer?

What is a simple device that uses the laws of electrostatics to detect small electric charges?

What are the actual physical components of a computer?

What is the SI unit of resistance?

What is the process of replacing atoms of a semiconductor with atoms of another element?

What is the most important device for converting electricity into motion?

What is the general term for a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction but is not permanently changed?

What is the strongest intermolecular force?

What type of reaction can occur without continuing outside help?

Who wrote the first computer program?

How do two like charges interact when they are brought close to each other?

What term describes an object with an equal number of positive and negative charges?

What idea states that no two electrons in an atom can have the same four quantum numbers?

What electrical device is designed to hinder current flow?

What term describes a substance that has several unpaired electrons per atom and is strongly attracted to magnets?

What is the salt of a carboxylate ion?

What are instructions written in a programming language?

What are used to indicate the direction and strength of a magnetic field?

What is a device that transforms the energy of an electric current into another useful form of energy?

What is the idea that life arose from a chemical reaction in the ocean with energy from thermal vents or lightning?

What is the SI base unit of current?

What is the belief that natural processes have always occurred in the same manner and at the same rate?

What type of electric generator uses a commutator?

What are the pieces of information that a computer handles?

What is the idea that gravity is an effect of the geometry of space?

What is a device that opens or closes a circuit?

What is the most important scientific principle showing that there had to have been an act of creation?

What intermolecular force occurs between all molecules?

What are the most powerful computers that are designed for rapidly performing complex calculations?

What system uses codes called URI's to identify specific pieces of information to be used to acces the information?

Who performed the best known attempt to reproduce abiogenesis in the laboratory?

Who discovered x-rays?

What is a random change in the DNA that occurs when a gene is damaged or copied incorrectly?

What is the most commonly accepted evolutionary view of the origin of matter and energy of the universe?

What states that the true laws of nature always hold?

What type of material does not allow current to easily flow through?

What electromagnetic waves are sometimes referred to as "heat rays"?

What does ex nihilo mean?

What device increases or decreases the voltage of alternating current?

What is the circuit board that connects all a computer's components?

What is a circuit that contains a complete path for electrons to flow through?

What type of substance has no unpaired electrons and is slightly repelled by either pole of a magnet?

What is the smallest directly accessible unit of data in a computer?

Which lamp is the most efficient?

What stores information permanently?

What is a homogenous mixture?

What idea states that tiny particles do not absorb or release energy in a smooth flow?

What is the negative terminal of a voltaic cell?

Who discovered electrons?

What type of software directs the computer to perform specific tasks for the user?

What is a vacuum tube that has two electrodes and a wire grid?

What term describes the kinetic energy that two colliding molecules must have to undergo a chemical change?

What is a combination of all the colors of light mixed together?

What is one or more electrochemical cells connected to terminals as a single source of current?

What are the tiny bundles or packets of energy that light consists of?

What term describes a situation in which two reactions in opposite directions occur at the same rate?

What idea uses scientific observation alone as evidence that there must be a designer for the universe?

What is the general term for a physical combination of pure substances?

What are the electrons located in the outermost shell of any atom called?

What process imparts electric charge at a distance without direct contact between objects?

What is the stationary magnet in an electric generator?

What is the most common type of electrostatic generator in use today?

What is the region of concentrated magnetism at the end of a magnet?

What is a single chip that contains a complete CPU?

What are low-frequency waves used for communication?

What branch of chemistry is the study of carbon-containing compounds?

What is a beam of light containing waves that all vibrate in the same direction?

What is the general term for a device that produces static electricity?

What are the most powerful and penetrating forms of electromagnetic radiation?

What is the process of combining two nuclei to form a heavier nucleus?

What hydrocarbon contains one or more double bonds?

What do the additive primary colors always refer to?

What theory states that light has characteristics of both particles and waves?

What device only allows current to flow in one direction?

What unit refers to 6.022 x 10²³ particles of a substance?