Physics
This quantity measures how fast an object is moving.
What is speed?
These organelles are known as the powerhouse of the cell.
What are mitochondria?
This subatomic particle has a positive charge and is found in the nucleus.
What is a proton?
This is the outermost layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win it in two scientific fields.
Who is Marie Curie?
What is the force that opposes the motion of objects sliding against each other.
What is friction?
In an energy pyramid, the largest amount of energy is found at this trophic level.
What is the producer level?
This number represents the number of protons in an atom and determines its identity.
What is the atomic number?
These tectonic plate boundaries form when two plates move away from each other.
What are divergent boundaries?
Rosalind Franklin’s work with X-ray crystallography was crucial in discovering the structure of this molecule.
What is DNA?
This law states that an object will remain at rest or in uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force.
What is Newton’s First Law (law of inertia)?
This type of transport moves substances against their concentration gradient and requires ATP.
What is active transport?
Elements in the same column of the periodic table are referred to as this and have similar chemical properties.
What are groups or families?
This layer of the Earth is composed of molten metal and is responsible for creating Earth’s magnetic field.
What is the outer core?
She was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in computer science in the United States and developed the compiler, a tool essential for modern programming.
Who is Grace Hopper?
The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the net force acting on it and inversely proportional to its mass. Name the equation.
What is F = ma (Newtons Second Law)
This structure in plant cells stores water and maintains turgor pressure to support the plant.
What is the central vacuole?
This is the name for the region around the nucleus where electrons are most likely found.
What is the electron cloud (or orbital)?
The movement of tectonic plates is driven by these currents in the mantle.
What are convection currents?
Maria Goeppert Mayer developed the nuclear shell model to explain this aspect of atomic nuclei.
What is nuclear stability?
This type of force arises when an object moves in a circular path and always points toward the center of the circle.
What is centripetal force?
This cellular pathway converts glucose into pyruvate, generating a net of two ATP molecules and two NADH molecules.
What is glycolysis?
This scientist developed the planetary model of the atom, in which electrons orbit the nucleus in fixed paths.
Who is Niels Bohr?
This supercontinent existed over 200 million years ago and included all the continents joined together.
What is Pangaea?
She was the first African American woman to travel to space as part of the Space Shuttle Endeavour crew in 1992.
Who is Dr. Mae Jemison?