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how much land did the Homestead Act allow a person to claim?
up to 160 acres
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how long did the person have to live on the land?
five years
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when was the Kinkaid Act brought about?
1904
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the dominion act was passed in what year
1871
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Along with industrial and medical, in what applications is infrared radiation used?
scientific
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What technology is used by night-vision devices?
active near-infrared illumination
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What discipline uses infrared telescopes to see through molecular clouds?
Infrared astronomy
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What color shift indicates that space objects date from the early days of the universe?
red
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What devices are used to observe insulated system heat loss?
Infrared thermal-imaging cameras
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At what wavelength does the human eye become significantly less sensitive to light?
700 nm
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What sort of light is generated by IR lasers?
near-IR
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Up to what wavelength does the human eye perceive IR LED sources as red?
780 nm
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Up to what wavelength does the human eye perceive certain intense lights as being dull red in color?
1050 nm
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What objects are notably bright in near IR?
Leaves
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What is the term for the property that describes how a surface's thermal emissions deviate from the ideal of a black body?
emissivity
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How will the infrared image of an object with a higher emissivity appear in relation to one with lower emissivity?
hotter
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Along with pyrometers, what devices can receive inaccurate results if emissivity is not set correctly?
infrared cameras
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What is the technique that analyzes the constituent bonds of molecules to identify them?
Infrared vibrational spectroscopy
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What happens to a molecule if an oscillation results in a dipole being changed?
it will absorb a photon that has the same frequency
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What do the vibrational frequencies of molecules usually correspond to?
the frequencies of infrared light
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What is the term for light radiation in the 4000–400 cm−1 spectrum?
the mid-infrared
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What is used in infrared photography to capture the near-infrared spectrum?
infrared filters
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What devices are often equipped with infrared blockers?
Digital cameras
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What is the technique that involves imaging with terahertz radiation?
'T-ray' imaging
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What is another name for terahertz radiation?
far-infrared
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What is a notable recent development in T-ray imaging?
terahertz time-domain spectroscopy
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What technique is used in art to examine underlying layers of a painting without damaging it?
Infrared reflectography
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What shows up particularly well in reflectograms?
carbon black
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What is the term for differences in the painting and underdrawing made by the original artist?
pentimenti
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Who discovered infrared radiation?
William Herschel
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In what year did Herschel publish his work on infrared radiation?
1800
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To whom did Herschel present his work on infrared radiation?
the Royal Society of London
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What device did Herschel use to discover the infrared?
a prism
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What did Herschel call the infrared spectrum?
Calorific Rays
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What is a commonly used term for infrared radiation?
heat radiation
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What percentage of the Earth's heat is derived from the Sun's infrared light?
49%
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What is the common range of emitted radiation of room temperature objects, in micrometers?
8 to 25
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Other than infrared light, what type of light is responsible for heating the Earth?
visible
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What is another term for infrared homing?
Infrared tracking
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What devices make use of infrared homing?
Missiles
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What is a common name for missiles that make use of infrared seeking?
heat-seekers
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Along with aircraft and people, what objects notably create and retain heat?
vehicle engines
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What does IR stand for?
infrared
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Along with Cirrus, what types of clouds are cold and high?
Cumulonimbus
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What color do Cirrus clouds appear in infrared?
white
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Along with Stratus, what clouds are lower and warmer?
Stratocumulus
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What color are Strarus clouds in infrared?
grey
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What is the range of the near-infrared channel in micrometers?
1.58–1.64
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What limits the sensitivity of infrared telescopes on Earth?
water vapor in the atmosphere
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To somewhat avoid the water vapor in the atmosphere, where can an observatory be sited?
at a high altitude
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Along with aircraft, what object can be used to carry a telescope aloft?
balloon
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What sorts of telescopes completely avoid water vapor in Earth's atmosphere?
Space telescopes
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What is the nearest wavelength to the radiation that a human eye can see?
Near-infrared
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Along with the emission peaks and vs. bands mechanisms, what other physical mechanism is used to define near-infrared?
water absorption
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In micrometers, when do common silicon detectors cease to be sensitive?
1,050
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What is the lowest level of sensitivity, in micrometers, for InGaAs?
950
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What is the term for transit energy flowing as a result of differences in temperature?
Heat
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What type of heat transmission can propagate through a vacuum?
thermal radiation
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What object emits thermal radiation in the X-ray spectrum?
the solar corona
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The visible, ultraviolet and X-ray spectra are all above what spectrum?
infrared
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What is the range of the electromagnetic spectrum in micrometers?
0.9–14
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In nanometers, what is the electromagnetic spectrum's range?
900–14,000
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What law states that infrared radiation is emitted by objects based on temperature?
the black body radiation law
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What happens to the amount of radiation an object emits as temperature increases?
increases
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What type of cameras see infrared radiation?
Thermographic
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What irradiates clouds of gas in the galaxy and makes them glow?
imbedded stars
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What can be detected via infrared prior to their emitting visible light?
protostars
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What objects emit less of their energy as infrared light versus visible light?
Stars
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What sort of equipment uses the infrared spectrum in the absence of sufficient visible light?
night vision
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What do night vision devices convert ambient light photons into?
electrons
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Along with a chemical process, what type of process is used by night vision devices to convert infrared into visible light?
electrical
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What is the IrDA?
the Infrared Data Association
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What does the acronym LEDs stand for?
light-emitting diodes
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What is a term for when something is switched on and off?
modulated
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What device is used to transform infrared radiation into an electric current?
silicon photodiode
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Why does infrared not cause trouble for devices in adjacent rooms?
IR does not penetrate walls
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What letter represents the index of refraction?
n
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What letter represents the extinction Coefficient?
k
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What equations are used to figure out the index of refraction and extinction Coefficient?
Forouhi-Bloomer dispersion
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Along with critical dimension and depth, what can the infrared light reflectance be used to determine in regard to high aspect ratio trench structures?
sidewall angle
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What reflectance is measured from a semiconductor wafer's surface to determine the index of refraction?
light
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What is the name of the technique used in scanners to minimize the effects of dust and scratches?
Infrared cleaning
[ "Infrared\n\nInfrared cleaning is a technique used by some Motion picture film scanner, film scanners and flatbed scanners to reduce or remove the effect of dust and scratches upon the finished scan. It works by collecting an additional infrared channel from the scan at the same position and resolution as the three...
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Along with red and blue, what is the third visible color channel?
green
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Along with replacement via inpainting, what procedure is used in infrared cleaning to remove the effect of scratches and dust?
scaling
[ "Infrared\n\nInfrared cleaning is a technique used by some Motion picture film scanner, film scanners and flatbed scanners to reduce or remove the effect of dust and scratches upon the finished scan. It works by collecting an additional infrared channel from the scan at the same position and resolution as the three...
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Along with the visible light channels, what channel is used to locate scratches and dust in scanners?
infrared
[ "Infrared\n\nInfrared cleaning is a technique used by some Motion picture film scanner, film scanners and flatbed scanners to reduce or remove the effect of dust and scratches upon the finished scan. It works by collecting an additional infrared channel from the scan at the same position and resolution as the three...
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Along with the surface of the Earth, what objects absorb radiation from the sun?
clouds
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After Earth surface's absorbs radiation, in what spectrum is much of it re-emitted?
infrared
[ "Infrared\n\nEarth's surface and the clouds absorb visible and invisible radiation from the sun and re-emit much of the energy as infrared back to atmosphere. Certain substances in the atmosphere, chiefly cloud droplets and water vapor, but also carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and chlor...
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Along with water vapor, what atmospheric substance primarily absorbs the infrared emitted by the Earth?
cloud droplets
[ "Infrared\n\nEarth's surface and the clouds absorb visible and invisible radiation from the sun and re-emit much of the energy as infrared back to atmosphere. Certain substances in the atmosphere, chiefly cloud droplets and water vapor, but also carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and chlor...
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What notable warming effect does the presence of infrared absorbers contribute to?
greenhouse
[ "Infrared\n\nEarth's surface and the clouds absorb visible and invisible radiation from the sun and re-emit much of the energy as infrared back to atmosphere. Certain substances in the atmosphere, chiefly cloud droplets and water vapor, but also carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulfur hexafluoride, and chlor...
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What term refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth?
Biodiversity
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What types of variations does Biodiversity refer to?
genetic variation, ecosystem variation, or species variation
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What type of biodiversity happens near the equator?
Terrestrial biodiversity
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Where on Earth is biodiversity the most abundnant?
It is richest in the tropics.
[ "Biodiversity\n\nBiodiversity, a contraction of \"biological diversity,\" generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth. One of the most widely used definitions defines it in terms of the variability within species, between species, and between ecosystems. It is a measure of the variety of organi...
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Where is sea surface temperature the highest?
along coasts in the Western Pacific
[ "Biodiversity\n\nBiodiversity, a contraction of \"biological diversity,\" generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth. One of the most widely used definitions defines it in terms of the variability within species, between species, and between ecosystems. It is a measure of the variety of organi...
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Who is the author of the biodiversity research paper?
Bruce A. Wilcox
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Who commissioned the biodiversity research paper?
International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)
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At what event was the biodiversity research paper presented?
1982 World National Parks Conference
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What year did the United Nations Earth Summit define "biological diversity"?
1992
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What model correlates much better than the hyperbolic model?
the Phanerozoic
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What model is widely used in macrosociology?
hyperbolic model
[ "Biodiversity\n\nOn the other hand, changes through the Phanerozoic correlate much better with the hyperbolic model (widely used in population biology, demography and macrosociology, as well as fossil biodiversity) than with exponential and logistic models. The latter models imply that changes in diversity are guid...