Question: The Center for Public Integrity found that 151 of what primate were moved from the New England Primate Research Center into exotic pet trade?
Answer: cotton-top tamarin

Question: What happened in 1976 that impacted this primate's classification as Endanger?
Answer: over 800 cotton-top tamarins were imported into the United States

Question: What school is affiliated with the New England Primate Research Center?
Answer: Harvard

Question: Section 6 of the Endangered Species Act provided funding for what purpose?
Answer: development of programs for management of threatened and endangered species by state wildlife agencies

Question: What is one notable drawback with state wildlife agencies creating their own lists?
Answer: These state lists often include species which are considered endangered or threatened within a specific state but not within all states

Question: What states are listing species that are endangered in their own state, but that are not endangered in all other states?
Answer: Florida, Minnesota, Maine, and California

Question: Is the public given incentive to report Endangered Species Act violations?
Answer: A reward will be paid to any person who furnishes information which leads to an arrest, conviction, or revocation of a license

Question: Given that a violator caused wildlife harm, who may provide financial assistance for the care of the harmed wildlife?
Answer: The Secretary

Question: Costs over what balance lead to the Secretary of the Treasury depositing money into the cooperative endangered species conservation fund?
Answer: $500,000

Question: The word Vacuum stems from what Latin adjective?
Answer: vacuus

Question: What does the term used by Physicists, partial vacuum, refer to?
Answer: imperfect vacuum

Question: What is a vacuum?
Answer: space void of matter

Question: What type of pressure is less than atmospheric pressure in a vacuum?
Answer: gaseous

Question: What Latin term is used to describe an object in a vacuum?
Answer: in vacuo

Question: The Vacuum state is considered what?
Answer: the ground state of matter.

Question: A typical vacuum cleaner produces enough suction to do what to air pressure?
Answer: reduce air pressure by around 20%

Question: The quality of a partial vacuum refers to what?
Answer: how closely it approaches a perfect vacuum

Question: Outer space has a high quality vacuum with what equivalent?
Answer: a few hydrogen atoms per cubic meter

Question: If all matter is removed from a vacuum, would it be empty space?
Answer: it would still not be "empty"

Question: What did Aristotle believe about a void?
Answer: no void could occur naturally,

Question: What was historically disputed about vacuums?
Answer: whether such a thing as a vacuum can exist.

Question: What did something that was literally nothing at all,According to Plato, mean?
Answer: cannot rightly be said to exist

Question: Aristotle thought what would fill any rarity that might give rise to a void?
Answer: denser surrounding material continuum

Question: In what century did believes start to move away from Aristotle's idea regarding a void?
Answer: 14th century

Question: What thought process was used in the beginning belief of the existence of vacuums?
Answer: Stoic physics

Question: Roger Bacon,Walter Burley and Blasius of Parma were from what century?
Answer: 13th and 14th

Question: What belief regarding a cosmic void was accepted by most in the 17th century?
Answer: a supernatural void beyond the confines of the cosmos itself

Question: What does Rapid decompression do to the lungs?
Answer: rupture of the delicate alveoli

Question: What causes barotrauma?
Answer: rapid decompression

Question: What amount of pressure drop can kill you if it occurs suddenly?
Answer: 13 kPa (100 Torr),

Question: What does acceleration of oxygen consumption do?
Answer: hypoxia

Question: rapid decompression is more dangerous than what?
Answer: vacuum exposure

Question: What did Descartes believe about vacuums in nature?
Answer: that a vacuum does not occur in nature

Question: Whose work with metaphysics would come to define the notion of empty space?
Answer: Descartes

Question: What philosophy combined with Descartes to push quantum activity in the 20th century?
Answer: Cartesian mechanical philosophy

Question: An infinite sea of particles with negative energy  was a model propesed by whom?
Answer: Paul Dirac

Question: What year was the Dirac sea modeled?
Answer: 1930

Question: When werer virtual particles confirmed?
Answer: late 20th century

Question: What year was the uncertainty principle formed?
Answer: 1927,

Question: What theorized that time and energy can be measured?
Answer: Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle

Question: what is a perfect example of a filled vacuum showing a curvature?
Answer: The black hole

Question: Who's equations  helped to imply vanishing of the Ricci tensor?
Answer: Einstein

Question: what produces curvature in a vacuum?
Answer: tidal forces and gravitational waves

Question: What has no electric charge?
Answer: black hole

Question: Where do most satellites operate?
Answer: low Earth orbit

Question: What system could possibly be used for interplanetary travel?
Answer: solar sails

Question: why do satellites need to fire engines every few day to keep orbit?
Answer: atmospheric density

Question: above what line location in outer space to satellites orbit?
Answer: Kármán line

Question: Al-Farabi concluded a perfect vacuum was incoherent using what?
Answer: handheld plungers in water.

Question: Ibn al-Haytham used geometry to demonstrate  what?
Answer: place (al-makan) is the imagined three-dimensional void between the inner surfaces of a containing body

Question: who stated that there was no evidence to rule out a vacuum?
Answer: Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī

Question: what did Al-Farabi say expanded to fill available space
Answer: air's volume

Question: What type of pump appeared in the 15th century?
Answer: suction pump

Question: Who required no restrictions regarding God's power?
Answer: Bishop Etienne Tempier

Question: When did Buridan state that teams of ten horses could not open a bellow with a sealed port?
Answer: 14th century

Question: the 1277 Paris Condemnations led to what conclusion?
Answer: God could create a vacuum if he so wished.

Question: What was a common belief about vacuums and nature?
Answer: nature abhorred a vacuum

Question: what was the belief that nature abhorred a vaccuum called?
Answer: horror vacui

Question: What was the vacuum created by the mercury displacement pump?
Answer: partial vacuum of about 10 Pa (0.1 Torr).

Question: What year was the Toepler Pump invented?
Answer: 1850

Question: What was first invented by Otto von Guericke ?
Answer: vacuum pump

Question: Who conducted the Magdeburg experiment?
Answer: Otto von Guericke

Question: What was made visible at a partial vacuum of 10 Pa?
Answer: A number of electrical properties

Question: What was originally believed the heavens were filled with?
Answer: aether

Question: Why were experiments done on luminiferous aether in the 19 Century?
Answer: "While the interstellar absorbing medium may be simply the ether, [it] is characteris

Question: Who stated that the character of a gas and free molecule were in ether?
Answer: Henry Pickering

Question: Where are the highest amounts of naturally occurring partial vacuums?
Answer: outer space

Question: What was ether originally thought to be made of?
Answer: rigid indestructible material

Question: What indicated the quality of a vacuum?
Answer: amount of matter remaining in the system

Question: How is vacuum generally measured?
Answer: its absolute pressure

Question: What does the MFP of residual gases show?
Answer: average distance that molecules will travel between collisions with each other.

Question: What is particle gas dynamics?
Answer: study of fluid flows