Famous Scientists
He formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
The gas that plants absorb from the air during photosynthesis?
What is carbon dioxide?
It is the term for a segment of DNA that codes for a specific protein?
What is a gene?
This astronomer first demonstrated that the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
Which element has the atomic number 1.
What is hydrogen?
This is the boundary between two air masses, often causing storms and precipitation.
What is a front?
He discovered penicillin?
Who is Alexander Fleming?
This term describes the gradual increase in Earth's average surface temperature due to human activities?
What is global warming?
This molecule carries genetic information from DNA to the ribosome for protein synthesis.
What is messenger RNA (mRNA)?
This scientist discovered the circulation of blood through the body in the 17th century.
Who is William Harvey?
The chemical symbol for gold.
What is Au?
The Saffir-Simpson scale rates the strength of hurricanes based on wind speed on a scale of this range.
What is 1 to 5.
They discovered the structure of DNA?
Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?
The name of the international agreement signed in 2015 aiming to limit global temperature rise.
What is the Paris Agreement?
DAILY DOUBLE
Changes in the DNA sequence that can lead to new traits or diseases are called this.
DAILY DOUBLE
In 1796, this English physician Edward Jenner developed the first successful vaccine for this by observing the immunity among milkmaids.
It is another name for the group of elements known as the noble gases.
What are the inert gases?
This instrument measures air pressure and is essential for predicting weather changes.
What is a barometer?
Known as the “father of modern genetics,” he discovered the basic laws of inheritance using pea plants.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
This chemical compound, once used in refrigerants and aerosols, contributed to ozone layer depletion?
What are chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)?
This type of trait will appear in an organism whenever it is present, even if only inherited from one parent.
What is a dominant trait?
He was the first to show that light behaves like both a wave and a particle, helping explain the photoelectric effect.
Who is Albert Einstein?
It is the lightest metal?
What is lithium?
This instrument is used to measure the speed of the wind.
What is an anemometer?
He is known as the father of modern chemistry.
Who is Antoine Lavoisier?
The name of the process by which nitrogen is converted into ammonia by bacteria in the soil.
What is nitrogen fixation?
The observable physical or physiological traits of an organism, influenced by genes and by the environment.
What is a phenotype?
This particle was discovered by J.J. Thomson in 1897.
What is the electron?
These are forms of the same element that have the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons.
What are isotopes?
The spinning motion of the Earth that affects wind direction and ocean currents is called this.
This metal, known since ancient times, is the best conductor of electricity of any element.
This metal, known since ancient times, is the best conductor of electricity of any element.