Question

Read the passage from an article about gravity.

Imagine riding in an elevator to the top floor of a very tall building. At the top, the cables supporting the car break, causing the car and you to fall to the ground. (In this example, we discount the effects of air friction on the falling car.) Since you and the elevator car are falling together, you feel like you are floating inside the car. In other words, you and the elevator car are accelerating downward at the same rate due to gravity alone. If a scale were present, your weight would not register because the scale would be falling too. The ride is lots of fun until you get to the bottom! NASA calls this floating condition microgravity. The condition is experienced in orbit and in transit between planetary bodies.

Which words used in the passage are domain-specific terms?

Select all that apply.
elevator
accelerating
orbit
microgravity

Answer 1

orbit, microgravity

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Answer 2

Orbit

Microgravity

Step-by-step explanation:

A word is said to be domain specific if such vocabulary is directly related or inclined very closely to a certain subject or knowledge domain. Each subject or field of knowledge has it's own domain specific vocabulary which are only used often when speaking within the specific field of study. The passage above speaks within the context of boundaries of teh physical universe called space. Space related vocabularies include words associated with the universe and planetary bodies including cosmos, galaxy, Microgravity, orbit, the planets and so on.

The words elevator and accelerating aren't domain specific as they are widely used in other domains including physics, engineering and other fields.