[U] Tech Bowl Study Guide

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Overview
Practice Game
Science
Engineering
Computing / Electronics
Math
TSA History

Overview

This is a study guide for the technology bowl competition. This can be used to study for both MS and HS level competition. If you don’t know the answer to a question, look it up.

Practice Game

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Science

General

What is a hypothesis?
What is a theory?
What is a scientific law?
What is an experiment?
What is data?
What is quantitative data?
What is qualitative data?
What is the scientific method?
What is the International System of Units (SI)?
What is the metric system?
What is the imperial unit system?
What is a mole?
What is gram?
What is a liter
What is a meter?
What is a second?
What is a joule?
What is a watt?
What is a calorie?
What is a newton?
What is a volt?
What is an ampere?
What is an ohm?
What is a pascal?
What is a torr?
What is an atmosphere?
What is a degree kelvin?
What is a degree celsius?
What do the prefixes, nano, micro, mili, centi, deci, deca, hecto, kilo, mega, and giga mean?
What are the fundamental units in the metric system?
What is a foot?
What is a yard?
What is a mile?
How many feet are in a mile?
What is a nautical mile?
What is a pound?
What is a gallon?

Astronomy / Physics

What are the four fundamental forces?
What is gravity?

Earth Science

What is the Richter scale?
What is an earthquake?
What is a bomb cyclone?
What is a cumulus cloud?
What is lightning?
What is erosion?
What are igneous rocks?
What are sedimentary rocks?
What are metamorphic rocks?
What are crystalls?
What are minirals?
What are canyons?
What are oceans?
What are geysers?
What are volcanos
What are mountains?
What is the Pacific Ring of Fire?
What are fault lines?
What are tectonic plates?

Chemistry

What is an atom?
What is an element?
What is a molecule?
What is a species?
What is an ion?
What is a cation?
What is an anion?
What is a noble gas?
What is a metal?
What is a salt?
What are ionic bonds?
What are covalent bonds?
What are metallic bonds?
What are dipole-dipole bonds?
What are intermolecular forces?
What are intramolecular forces?
What are London dispersion forces?
What is a dipole?
What is an induced dipole?
What is a polar molecule?
What is a non-polar molecule?
What is combustion?
What is a redox reaction?
What is a precipitation reaction?
What is an acid-base reaction?
What is an acid?
What is a base?

Biology

What is deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)?
What is ribonucleic acid (RNA)?
What is the nucleus of a cell?
What is a cell?
What is cytoplasm?
What are organelles?
What are bacteria?
What are mitochondria?
What are chloroplasts?
What is the golgi apparatus?
What is are ribosomes?
What are vacuoles?
What is the cell membrane?
What is a prokaryote?
What is a eukaryote?
What is a protein?
What is an enzyme?
What are genes?
What are chromosomes?
What is a genome?
What are chromatids?
What are Y-linked genes?
What are genotypes?
What are phenotypes?
What are recessive traits?
What are dominant traits?
What is mitosis?
What is meiosis?
What are red blood cells?
What are white blood cells?
What are neurons?
What are antibodies?
What are T-cells?
What are B-cells?

Biotechnology / Medicine

What is CRISPR-Cas9?
What is cancer?
What is chemotherapy?
What is insulin?
What is diabeties?

Engineering

Structural

What is compression?
What is tension?
What is shear?
What is torsion?
What is bending?
What is friction?
What is drag?
What is lift?
What is spring force?
What is applied force?
What is normal force?
What is air resistance?
What is spring force?

Mechanical

What are simple machines?
What are compound machines?
What is effort?
What is load?
What is a fulcrum?
What is a lever?
What is a pully?
What is an inclined plane / ramp?
What is a screw?

Robotics

What is a gripper?
What is a sensor?
What is an end effector?

Computing / Electronics

Computer Hardware

What is hardware?
What is a Central Processing Unit (CPU)?
What is Random Access Memory (RAM)?
What is a motherboard?
What is cache?
What is WiFi?
What is Bluetooth?
What is the Universal Serial Bus (USB) protocol?
What is a register?
What is a hard disk drive (HDD)?
What is a solid state drive (SSD)?
What is a flash drive?
What is a Standard Digital (SD) card?

Software

What is software?
What is firmware?
What is an operating system?
What is Linux?
What is Windows?
What is macOS?
What is Android?
What is iOS?
What is UEFI / BIOS?
What is open source code?
What is closed source code?
What is a terminal / console?

The Internet

What is a web browser?
What is a search engine?
What is a client?
What is a server?
What is a local area network (LAN)?
What is a wide are network (WAN)?
What is a switch?
What is a hub?
What is a router?
What is a modem?
What is an Internet Protocol (IP) address?
What is a domain name system (DNS) server?
What is a domain?
What is a port?
What is a top level domain (TLD)?
What is a subdomain?
What is the Hypertext Transer Protocol (HTTP)?
What is the file transfer protocol (FTP)?
What is the secure shell protocol (SSH)?
What is hyperlink?
What is the world wide web?
What are fiber optic cables?
What is the Transmission Control Protocol TCP/IP?
What is the User Datagram Protocol (UDP)?

Programming

What is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)?
What is assembly?
What is a low-level language?
What is a high-level language?
What is a compiler?
What is object-oriented programming?
What is JavaScript?
What is Python?
What is C?
What is C++?
What is Java?
What is HTML?
What is SQL?
What are functions?
What is an algorithm?
What is an integer?
What is a string?
What is a floating point number?
What is a variable?
What is a boolean?
What is a conditional?
What is an if statement?
What a for loop?
What is a while loop?
What an OR gate?
What is an AND gate?
What is a NOT gate?
What is an XOR gate?
What is an operator?

Data

What is a bit?
What is a byte?
What is binary?
What is hexadecimal?
What is base64?
What is plaintext?
What is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)?
What is Unicode / UTF-8?
What is Morse code?
What is a Portable Document Format (PDF) file?
What is a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) file?
What is a Portable Network Graphics (PNG) file?
What is an executable (EXE) file?
What is a ZIP file?
What is data compression?
What is lossy compression?
What is lossless compression?
What are file archives?
What are magic bytes?
What is cryptography?
What is steganography?
What is symmetric encryption?
What is asymmetric encryption?

Circuitry

What is a switch?
What is a resistor?
What is a capacitor?
What is a diode?
What is a light emitting diode (LED)?
What is a parallel circult?
What is a series circuit?
What is a battery?

Math

Algebra

What is i?
What is pi?
What is e?
What is a logarithm?
What is a natural logarithm?

Geometry

What is a graph?
What is slope of a line?
What is the y-intercept of a line?
What is a ray?
What is a tangent?

Calculus

TSA History

What does the president do?
What does the vice president do?
What does the secretary do?
What does the treasurer do?
What does the reporter do?
What does the sergeant-at-arms do?
Who is the current national president of TSA?
How many TSA members are there nationally?
When was TSA founded?
When was the American Industrial Arts Student Association (AIASA) founded?
What is the TSA motto?
What is a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO)?