Electricity and Energy
Substances through which an electric current cannot easily flow.
What is an insulator?
The smallest unit or building blocks of all living things.
What are cells?
The planet closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
Invented the telephone
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Three states water can exist in.
What are liquid, solid, and gas?
The center of an atom.
What is the nucleus?
What is the iris?
The planet with the most moons.
What is Saturn?
Invented the lightning rod.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
The process in which liquid turns into a gas.
The tiny negatively charged particles that surround the nucleus of an atom.
The light sensitive cells in the eye that detect color.
What are cones?
The kind of eclipse that occurs when sunlight on its way to the moon is blocked by Earth.
What is a lunar eclipse?
Physicist famous for his theories of relativity and the equation E=mc^2.
Who is Albert Einstein?
The scientific term for rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
What is precipitation?
Measured in a unit called hertz (Hz).
What is frequency?
The main nerve that connects the eye to the brain.
What is the optic nerve?
The unit that measures the distance that light travels in one year.
What is a light-year?
The name of the first sheep that was cloned using adult cells.
Who is Dolly?
The shockwave that comes from the heating and cooling of air near lightning.
What is thunder?
The name of the path through which electric current flows.
What is a circuit?
The hole in the eye that allows light to enter.
What is the pupil?
The galaxy Earth is located in.
What is the Milky Way?
Created a process of killing bacteria in food called pasteurization.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
The direction weather moves across the US.
What is to the east? (West to east)