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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.