They did What?!?
This Italian astronomer used a telescope to discover many celestial bodies within our solar system, including four moons of Jupiter.
Galileo Galilei
0.9% of earth's atmosphere is composed of this noble element.
argon
This change describe gaseous compounds turning directly into a solid, like the freezer burn on your ice cream
deposition
Next to oxygen, this element is most abundant in the earth's crust.
Silicon
This term describes any object that after being given an initial velocity is allowed to fall under the effects of gravity alone
Projectile
Having won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1932, this scientist is better known to millennials for his moniker lent to Walter White in TV series Breaking Bad.
Werner Heisenberg
This adjective describes water that is slightly salty.
brackish
This frozen solid forms at -78 degrees celsius, and you have to buy it in Brookline.
dry ice
Also known as fools gold, this ferrous mineral is not nearly as dense as the real thing.
pyrite
In chemistry this is the separation of electric charge on a molecule.
polarity
Working on pea plants, he uncovered the fundamental principals of inheritance, deducing that genes come in pairs
Gregor Mendel
This is the number of blades on a standard wind turbine.
3
The two constant byproducts of burning organic matter are these two vapors.
water and carbon dioxide
While most minerals on earth are silicates, the rest (like those found in seashells and limestone) are composed primarily of this polyatomic ion.
Carbonate
This quantum of light is the particle that carries electromagnetic energy
photon
In 1926, he contributed to the electron cloud theory by predicting the probability of finding an electron in a given orbital, or lobe.
Erwin Schrodinger
At 99 feet under the surface in the ocean, a diver would experience this amount of pressure.
3 atmospheres
This flammable hydrocarbon has but one carbon and one hydroxide, with the chemical formula CH3OH
methanol
Taking advantage of varying melting points, miners separate useful metals from ore in this process.
smelting
The slow change in orientation of a planet's rotational axis, this accounts for why earth's north star will not be at the north pole many years from now.
precession
This 1918 Nobel Prize winning physicist quantified energy, and his constant is 6.262 x 10-34 m2/kgs
Max Planck
This effect explains why light passing through suspended or colloid particles can be seen, like a laser beam in fog.
The Tyndall Effect
The chemical decomposition of organic material at extremely high temperatures is known as this, to chemist.
Pyrolysis
The San Andreas fault is an example of this form of boundary, where tectonic plates move past each other in the same horizontal plane
transform fault
The study of ancient diseases
Paleopathology