Science & Medicine — Set 2: Quick Drills flashcards
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Meaning to word: 25 of the Set 2 words, from a fresh one-line definition back to the word itself, with one example of it at work.
Drills deck · part of Science & Medicine · written against: 150 words of health and science news; not medical advice. Updated 2026-10-10.
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Which word means the thick-walled channel that freshly pumped blood travels through on its way out to the organs and limbs?arteryBody & Health
You can feel an artery throb on the side of your neck. -
Which word means what supplies most of the energy the body runs on: the sugars and starches in our food?carbohydrateBody & Health
Rowers sip drinks loaded with carbohydrate during long training sessions. -
Which word means for anyone who may have met a disease, a set time cut off from others to see if they fall ill?quarantineDisease & Infection
After returning to Earth, the first moonwalkers spent weeks in quarantine. -
Which word means what white blood cells send out to tag one kind of invader, such as a virus, for destruction: a Y-shaped molecule fitting only that target?antibodyDisease & Infection
Each antibody fits its target like a key in one lock. -
Which word means a germ-fighting drug that works on bacteria but not on viruses?antibioticDiagnosis & Treatment
Since 2006, the European Union has banned feeding antibiotics to farm animals just to make them grow faster. -
Which word means the field that turns living cells, and the genes inside them, into factories for goods such as drugs and pest-resistant corn?biotechnologyResearch & Technology
Biotechnology produced a golden rice that makes the building block of vitamin A. -
Which word means one living being in its own right, from a one-celled creature up to a tree or a whale?organismGenes & Life
The tardigrade is a tiny organism that survives freezing and drying. -
Which word means a material, neither good wire nor true insulator, whose current flow can be controlled?semiconductorMatter & Energy
LED bulbs glow when current crosses a junction inside a semiconductor. -
Which word means what screens out the sun's most damaging ultraviolet: a band of gas high above the weather?ozone layerEarth & Climate
Without the ozone layer, the sun's harshest ultraviolet light would reach the ground. -
Which word means a lump of rock or metal circling the sun that, unlike a comet, rarely trails a glowing tail?asteroidSpace
A sample capsule brought asteroid dust back to Earth in 2020.
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