Everyday Science
The process by which iron reacts with oxygen and water to form rust.
What oxidation?
The blood vessel that carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.
What is the pulmonary vein?
He discovered the electron in 1897.
Who in J.J. Thomson?
The formula for calculating momentum.
What is P=mv
The SI unit of frequency.
What is the hertz?
The gas responsible for the fizz in carbonated drinks.
What is carbon dioxide?
The enzyme in saliva that begins the breakdown of starch.
What is amylase?
She was the first woman to win Nobel Prize in Physics.
Who is Marie Curie?
The type of lens used to correct short-sightedness(myopia).
What is a cave lens?
The law that states energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the law of conservation of energy.
The principle behind the operation of a refrigerator
What is heat transfer by compression and expansion of gases?
The structure in the kidney responsible for filtration of blood.
What is a nephron?
He is known for the laws of planetary motion.
Who is Johannes Kepier?
The phenomenon where light bends as it passes from one medium to another.
What is refraction?
The process by which green plants release water vapor through their leaves.
What is transpiration?
The reason why oil floats on water.
What is lower density?
The type of joint found at the shoulder and hip.
What is a ball-and-socket joint?
He developed the first successful polio vaccine.
Who is Jonas Salk?
The principle that explains why ships float despite being heavy.
What is Archimedes' principle?
The scientist who proposed the atomic theory in 1803.
Who is John Dalton?
The scientific name for table sugar
what is sucrose?
The hormone secreted by the pancreas that lowers blood glucose levels.
What is insulin?
Jamaican scientist who pioneered work in biochemistry and nutrition, especially on yam starch.
Who is Dr. Henry Lowe?
What is a voltmeter?
The branch of science concerned with the study of heredity and variation.
What is genetics?