It's Elementary
Normally a gas found as a molecule made up of two atoms, it makes up about one-fifth of the atmosphere of the earth.
What is oxygen?
An abbreviation for cubic centimeter - the volume of a cube that has edges one centimeter long.
What is cc?
Named for the Roman goddess of love, it can be seen from the earth as a bright morning or evening star - occasionally bright enough to cast a shadow.
What is Venus?
A branch of mathematics marked chiefly by the use of symbols to represent numbers, as in the use of a^2+b^2=c^2 to express the Pythagorean Theorem.
What is algebra?
Born in Germany before moving to the United States later on, this person developed the special and general theories of relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
A necessary element in the tissues of living things, it makes up about four-fifths of the atmosphere of the earth.
What is nitrogen?
The irrational number obtained by dividing the length of the diameter of a circle into its circumference.
What is pi?
The Viking space mission, which placed landers on the surface, did not discover any signs of life on this planet.
What is Mars?
The branch of mathematics that treats the properties, measurement, and relations of points, lines, angles, surfaces, and solids.
What is geometry?
Proved that objects with different masses fall at the same velocity, and was one of the first people to use a telescope to examine objects in the sky.
Who is Galileo?
The lightest chemical element, it is usually found as a gas and has several uses as a fuel.
What is hydrogen?
The abbreviation for Hertz, a standard unit of frequency.
What is Hz?
Largely composed of gases, this planet is named after the ruler of the Roman gods.
What is Jupiter?
Used in most modern sciences, it provides a natural method for describing gradual change.
What is calculus?
Discovered the element Radium, and won the Nobel Prize in both physics and chemistry.
Who is Marie Curie?
This element has six protons and six or more neutrons with six electrons in orbit around the nucleus. Can you Correctly Conceptualize this Clue?
What is carbon?
In chemistry, a measure of the strength of an acid or a base - a neutral solution has one of 7.
What is pH?
This planet takes only eighty-eight days to go around the sun.
What is Mercury?
An expression of equality between two formulas in mathematics.
What is an equation?
Is said to have discovered the principle of gravity when he saw an apple fall to the ground at the same time that the moon was visible in the sky.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This element that is added to drinking water to kill bacteria is normally a corrosive gas that is widely used for sterilization and cleaning.
What is chlorine?
The symbol for carbon monoxide - a colorless, odorless, gas that can be fatal to human beings if inhaled.
What is CO?
Named for the Greek god of the sky, this was the first planet discovered in modern times in 1781.
What is Uranus?
A quantity whose value is determined by the value of some other quantity.
What is a function?
An American physicist of the twentieth century who led the research and development of the atomic bomb and was head of the Manhattan Project.
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?