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STEM in our lives
Acronyms
Scientific Method
Scientific Breakthroughs of 2014
100
What are smaller, atoms or electrons?
What is electrons
100
_________ connects the entire world, and is now accessible through computers, phones, iPads, e-readers and TVs, even when not connected to a router.
What is the internet
100
YSI, the group you are now a part of!
What is the Youth Science Institute
100
Scientists around the world (except in the US and Great Britain) use this measurement system when recording scientific data.
What is the metric system
100
The European Space Agency landed the first ever probe on a ___________, after a ten year journey to orbit it.
What is a comet
200
What natural process created the Grand Canyon?
What is erosion
200
Advil became an 'over-the-counter' drug in 1984, no longer requiring a __________ to obtain it.
What is a perscription
200
The EPA was created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress
What is the Environmental Protection Agency
200
An experiment test a ___________, which is an expectation about how a particular process or phenomenon works.
What is a hypothesis.
200
In September of 2014, the first ever birth was delivered to a woman who had this transplanted.
What is a uterus
300
Rocks are classified into these three categories based on how they are formed
What is igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic
300
Biologists developed the germ theory of disease, and research has shown that doing this regularly can prevent the spread of infection.
What is washing your hands
300
NASA is the United States government agency responsible for the civilian space program ans the aeronautics and aerospace research
What is National Aeronautics and Space Administration
300
What are the 5 stepd of the scientific method from first to last? A.research, problem, hypothesis, experimentation, conclusion B.research, problem, experimentation, conclusion, hypothesis C.research, hypothesis, conclusion, problem, experimentation
What is A.research, problem, hypothesis, experimentation, conclusion
300
NASA completed the first test run of its Orion Speacecraft, the first spacecraft the will carry humans past the ____________.
What is the moon
400
How long does it take for light from the sun to reach Earth? A. It happens almost instantaneously B. 8 seconds C. 8 minutes D. 8 Hours
What is C. 8 minutes
400
Due to their relatively low cost, ease of manufacture, versatility, and imperviousness to water, __________ are used in an enormous and expanding range of products, from paper clips to space ships.
What is plastics
400
DNA contains our genetic makeup, which we inherit from our mothers and fathers.
What is Deoxyribonucleic Acid
400
When completing an experiment, you are testing your hypothesis by looking at independent, controlled, and dependent variables. What is the controlled variable? A: the variable that you purposely manipulate B: the variable that is being observed C: the variable that is not changed
What is C: the variable that is not changed
400
Cognitive researchers from Stanford discovered that if you inject the blood of younger mice into older mice, it will improve this function in the older mice.
What is brain function or memory
500
What is the most common element in Earth's atmosphere?
What is Nitrogen
500
The Haber - Bosch process innovated an efficient way to convert atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia in the early 1900s, making the first readily available ___________ for farmers.
What is fertilizer
500
In 2014, blue LED lights were determined to be worth a Nobel Prize in Physics because of their energy saving capabilities.
What is light emitting diode
500
After completing the scientific method and writing up their findings, researchers must have this process completed by others in their field before their work may be published
What is Peer reviewed
500
This field of researchers from the University of Drexel estimated the size of Dreadnoughtus, the largest ever titanosaur whose femur measured six feet tall.
What is paleontologists
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