TECH BOWL PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Super Sonic Transport - answer- What does SST stand for?
slide rules - answer- Prior to the invention of cheap calculators, people used
__________ to make quick calculations.
Trade-off - answer- Giving up one thing in order to gain something else is called a(n)
_____.
bit - answer- The smallest possible piece of binary code (a one or a zero) is a
8 - answer- How many bits in a byte?
byte - answer- In a digital system, what is the basic unit of information storage (one of
these can store on letter)?
1024 - answer- Exactly how many bytes are in a kilobyte?
thousand - answer- The prefix kilo means
million - answer- The prefix mega means
billion - answer- The prefix giga means
trillion - answer- The prefix tera means
sound - answer- If you are flying at Mach 1, you are travelling at the speed of
twice the speed of sound - answer- Mach 2 is
the number of cylinders - answer- In a V-8 engine, the number "8" refers to
ohm - answer- Unit of electrical resistance
volt - answer- Unit of electric potential or electromotive force
ampere (or amp) - answer- Unit of electric current
mass - answer- In the metric system, grams (and kilograms) are the unit of measure for
force (and weight) - answer- In the metric system, Newtons are the unit of measure for
art (or craft) - answer- Techne is a Greek word meaning
Super Sonic Transport - answer- What does SST stand for?
slide rules - answer- Prior to the invention of cheap calculators, people used
__________ to make quick calculations.
Trade-off - answer- Giving up one thing in order to gain something else is called a(n)
_____.
bit - answer- The smallest possible piece of binary code (a one or a zero) is a
8 - answer- How many bits in a byte?
byte - answer- In a digital system, what is the basic unit of information storage (one of
these can store on letter)?
1024 - answer- Exactly how many bytes are in a kilobyte?
thousand - answer- The prefix kilo means
million - answer- The prefix mega means
billion - answer- The prefix giga means
trillion - answer- The prefix tera means
sound - answer- If you are flying at Mach 1, you are travelling at the speed of
twice the speed of sound - answer- Mach 2 is
the number of cylinders - answer- In a V-8 engine, the number "8" refers to
ohm - answer- Unit of electrical resistance
volt - answer- Unit of electric potential or electromotive force
ampere (or amp) - answer- Unit of electric current
mass - answer- In the metric system, grams (and kilograms) are the unit of measure for
force (and weight) - answer- In the metric system, Newtons are the unit of measure for
art (or craft) - answer- Techne is a Greek word meaning
