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This scientist developed laws for motion and gravity that are universal.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This nutrient, consisting of C6H12O6, is the scientific word for the form of sugar that we use for energy in our bodies
What is glucose?
This virus, also known as COVID-19, shut down the global economy in early 2020.
What is coronavirus?
This element typicall makes thing yellow and smells like rotten eggs.
What is sulfur?
This type of tool is used to measure volume, and is typically tube like with measurement numbers on the side.
What is a graduated cylinder?
This scientist wrote "The origin of species" in which he lays out the theory that nature chooses the fittest animals to survive.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This nutrient is important for preventing scurvy, an illness that many pirates got due to lack of fresh fruit and vegetables.
What is vitamin C?
This virus wiped out entire civilizations of native Americans, but has been eradicated globally due to vaccination.
What is smallpox?
This chemical melts at human body temperature.
What is Gallium?
This tool is used to measure or draw angles.
What is a protractor?
This scientist wrote "Silent Spring," a popular science book about pesticides that led to environmental protection laws in the United States.
Who is Rachel Carson?
We generate this nutrient in our bodies when we expose our skin to the sun, but it is also found in fatty fish and eggs.
What is Vitamin D?
This disease, a result of either genetics or lifestyle choices, requires it's sufferers to use supplemental insulin to regulate blood sugar.
What is diabetes?
This element has the atomic number 3 and reacts explosively with water
What is Lithium?
This tool is used to measure direction based on the magnetic poles of the earth.
What is a compass?
This scientist created the periodic table we know today based on a dream he had in which the elements laid themselves out by increasing atomic number.
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
This type of fat has been banned due to it increasing the risk of heart disease. It can be found naturally in some dairy.
What is trans Fat
This bacterial respiratory infection is the deadliest infectious disease in human history, but is really only a problem in poorer countries.
What is tuberculosis?
These two letters do not appear once on the periodic table of the elements.
What are J and Q?
This tool, used on old ships to place a vessel's latitude and longitude, uses the angle between the sun and the horizon.
What is a sextant?
This scientist, the only legitimate child of the poet Lord Byron was the first computer programmer ever.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This vitamin, also known as retinol, is important for vision, but is also sold to help treat severe acne.
What is vitamin A?
This disease, caused by a protist in water, is characterized by intense diarrheal episodes and is the most commonly diagnosed intestinal parasite.
What is Giardia?
Uranium decays into this element first, eventually stabilizing as lead.
What is thorium?
This tool uses electrical nodes to track activity in the heart such as beats per minute.
What is an ECG, or electrocardiograph.