VOCABULARY IN CONTEXT EXERCISE CHAPTER 1

WRITE THE MEANING FOR THE UNDERLINED WORD OR EXPRESSION.

There are hundreds of different breeds of dogs.Examples of these breeds include:

Bulldog, German Shepherd, Collie, Golden Retriever, St Bernard,
Greyhound,Bloodhound, Chihuahua, Labrador, Great Dane, Rottweiler, Boxer and
Cocker Spaniel.____________________
Electric circuits can contain parts such as switches, transformers, resistors and
transformers.________________
Electric fields work in a similar way to gravity with an important exception being
that while gravity always attracts, electric fields can either attract or
repulse.____________________
Computers are programmed to carry out instructions ______________________
Video game genres are wide and varied. Examples of popular genres include
action adventure, strategy, role playing, sports, racing, simulation and
puzzle.___________________
The Sahara Desert is located in northern Africa, spanning 12 different
countries._________________
Deserts have very low humidity.__________________________
Einstein produced perhaps one of the most famous equations ever: E = mc
(energy equals mass multiplied by the speed of light
squared).______________________________
In 1911 Marie Curie was awarded another Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, for
her discovery of radium and polonium and subsequent
research._________________________
Hawking has worked extensively on the subject of black holes, providing theories
for their behavior, including the idea that they emit
radiation._______________________
Hawking suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a type of motor neuron disease
that has left him almost completely paralyzed.____________________

Newtons law of universal gravitation describes the gravitational attraction between

bodies with mass, the earth and moon for example.____________________
Sound cant travel through a vacuum (an area empty of
matter).____________________
Sound comes from vibrations. These vibrations create sound waves which move
through mediums such as air and water before reaching our
ears.__________________
Each molecule of water is made up of two hydrogen atoms bonded to a single
oxygen atom.____________________
Water covers around 70% of the Earths surface.________________________
Most types of energy are either a form of kinetic energy or potential
energy_____________________
The law of conservation of energy states that energy can only be transformed, it
cant be created or destroyed.___________
Animals that eat plants as their primary food source are known as
herbivores._______________________
Nuclear power provides around 14% of the worlds electricity.
Gravity keeps Earth and the other planets in our solar system in orbit around the
Sun. It also keeps the Moon in orbit around Earth.
At room temperature, mercury is the only metal that is in liquid
form._______________
The fear of what animal is known as arachnophobia?_____________________
Electric current is measured using what device?_____________________
Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees
Fahrenheit).____________________
True or false? In an isosceles triangle all sides are
unequal._____________________
5 to the power of 0 equals what? 1._________________________

The gemstone ruby is typically what color?_______________________