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From Greek "to join," it's the cell formed by the joining of a male and female gamete
What is a zygote?
This type of rock is formed by the cooling of magma or lava
What is igneous rock?
Johannes Gutenberg is famous for inventing this device
What is the printing press?
This English chemist & x-ray crystallographer’s famed Photo 51 was instrumental to the discovery of DNA's double helix structure
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
The year UTK was founded
What is 1794?
This law states that for each action there is an equal and opposite reaction
What is Newton's Third Law?
This type of ecosystem is characterized by a snow covered landscape with little to no trees
What is a tundra?
This medical device generates electrical impulses delivered by electrodes to cause the heart muscle chambers to contract & pump blood
What is an artificial cardiac pacemaker?
This NASA scientist was crucial in planning and calculating the 1962 Friendship 7 mission. She was later awarded the presidential medal of freedom, and was the focus of the movie Hidden Figures
Who is Katherine Johnson?
Who is Josh Huepel?
In physics, this is defined as the rate at which work is done
What is power?
The Earth is composed of four layers: the crust, mantle, outer core, and the inner core, which is made up of molten ______, generating the magnetic field
What is iron?
The water wheel & the windmill are simple types of this, a machine with a rotor to turn flow into energy
What is a turbine?
This woman won Nobel prizes for her work in physics and chemistry, and is best known for her work with radioactivity
Who is Marie Curie?
The original name of the University of Tennessee
What is Blount College?
Alkali elements react with halogen elements because alkalis have 1 valence shell electron & halogens have this many
What is 7?
This phylum in the animal kingdom contains all organisms with spines
What is Chordata (or vertebrates)?
This telescope, created by NASA with contributions from the European Space Agency, was launched into low-Earth orbit in 1990 and currently remains in operation
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
This famous 1930s actress was also famous for developing the technology which led to modern day wifi and bluetooth
Who is Hedy Lamarr?
This is the dog breed of our mascot, Smokey
What is a Bluetick Coonhound?
Georg Ohm was a German physicist who gave his own name as a unit for this electrical property
This constellation is named after a hunter in Greek mythology and contains the stars Betelgeuse and Rigel
What is Orion?
This British-French supersonic passenger aircraft flew over Mach 2 (1,354 mph), and operated from 1976 until 2003
What is the Concorde?
This 19th century English mathematician is often referred to as the “first programmer” and is credited with writing the first computer program
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This element on the periodic table was discovered by a UT physicist
What is Tennessine?