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M1: E-Ticket Quiz
SCN 307 - Biomimicry
Question 1
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What does Biomimicry mean?
- It is Latin for life and mimicry.
- It is Greek for life and imitation.
- It is Latin for understanding life.
- It is Greek for understanding life.
Question 2
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What is Biomimicry?
- It is learning from the earth.
- It is mimicing the world around us to be smarter.
- It is the belief that we can find the solutions to all our needs by learning from nature.
- It is the study of nature on Planet Earth.
Question 3
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What was Velcro was fashioned after?
- the barbs from barb wire.
- the spirs from the earwig plant.
- the burrs of the burdock plant.
- the barbs from the legs of a fly.
Question 4
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What do solar cells do? Choose the best answer.
- take sunlight and turn it into heat.
- convert mechanical energy into electricity.
- convert sunlight directly into electricity.
- covert heat into energy.
Question 5
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What are Speedo swimsuits fashioned after?
- dolphin skin texture
- whale skin
- shark skin
- shark teeth
Question 6
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They mimicked birds for this product.
- The Windel brothers - the jet plane
- the Watson brothers - the boomerang
- The Carson brothers - the bullet train
- The Wright brothers - the airplane
Question 7
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All are examples of biomimicry except...
- Deep Blue, the chess machine
- airplanes
- potato chips
- solar panels
Question 8
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What is an example of a 'closed loop' system?
- an assembly line
- a school cafeteria
- a forest
- a recycle center
Question 9
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What is an example of systems biomimicry?
- The Frito-Lay in Arizona where they are 100% energy efficient.
- The Frito-Lay in Arizona where the factory recycles most of the water used, burns the leftover sludge and has solar panels to run the plant.
- The Frito-Lay in Arizona where the company produces enough energy to run 75% of the plant off the grid.
- The Frito-Lay in Arizona where they do not throw any excess food away but give it to food banks.
Question 10
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What was created to mimic the workings of the brain?
- A mainframe computer that can drive a plane.
- Deep Blue a computer that bested the world chess champion.
- A mainframe computer the size of a basketball that monitors an entire cities utilities.
- The Supercomputer Blue Quest that runs the Pentagon in Washington D.C.
Question 11
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What is MIT working on?
- a computer chip that can be implanted in the brain to assist the deaf.
- a computer chip that will power speech from typed dialogue
- a radio chip that resembles the cochlear of the ear and is able to catch different radio signals.
- a radio chip that will interpret brain wave signals
Question 12
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What is an example of an invention modeled after nature?
- collecting fog from leaf drip tips
- a flower with a spiral petal pattern
- the bullet train from the beak and head of a kingfisher
- sticky materials from the coating of a spiders web
Question 13
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What is the goal of AskNature?
- to organize all biological information by design and engineering.
- to list forms and functions of living things to better understand nature.
- to list and describe nature innovations used for solving human problems.
- to organize all the wildlife on the planet
Question 14
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What is EOL?
- a computer program where research can be conducted to learn about biological advancements.
- a website that list all the biological information of living things in the USA
- a website where you can pose questions and get answers from scientist.
- a collection of biological information for living things on the planet.
Question 15
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What is the Biomimicry Guild working on?
- Biomimicry innovations and successes.
- building cities that do as well ecologically as the native systems they replace.
- building networks where companies public and private can learn who to be more efficient and sustainable.
- A website that list all of the advancements in biomimicry.
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