Printable 21st Century Technology and Science flash cards
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| the internet |
vast computer network linking smaller networks worldwide |
| mobile |
pertaining to mobile devices, cell phones, tablets, smart phones |
| space tourism |
space travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes |
| Pluto |
ninth planet from the sun; reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 |
| NASA |
federal agency devoted to space travel |
| neutrinos |
any massless or nearly massless electrically neutral leptons |
| Human Genome Project |
US scientific project to identify the entire sequence of human DNA |
| H1N1 |
subtype of influenza, most common cause of flu in 2009 |
| DVD |
optical disk storing a large amount of digital data |
| download |
to transfer software, data, etc. from one device to another |
| cloud computing |
the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product |
| high definition television |
HDTV; TV system with twice the standard number of scanning lines per frame |
| social networking |
online platform that facilitates social relations between people |
| vaccine |
preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease |
| the internet |
vast computer network linking smaller networks worldwide |
| mobile |
pertaining to mobile devices, cell phones, tablets, smart phones |
| space tourism |
space travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes |
| Pluto |
ninth planet from the sun; reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 |
| NASA |
federal agency devoted to space travel |
| neutrinos |
any massless or nearly massless electrically neutral leptons |
| Human Genome Project |
US scientific project to identify the entire sequence of human DNA |
| H1N1 |
subtype of influenza, most common cause of flu in 2009 |
| DVD |
optical disk storing a large amount of digital data |
| download |
to transfer software, data, etc. from one device to another |
| cloud computing |
the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product |
| high definition television |
HDTV; TV system with twice the standard number of scanning lines per frame |
| social networking |
online platform that facilitates social relations between people |
| vaccine |
preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease |
