Science Sparkles
The smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
A program that can learn patterns from data us called ___
What is artificial intelligence (AI)
This engineering focuses on designing and building machines
What is mechanical engineering
The distance around a circle is called this.
What is the circumference?
STEM stands for
What is science, technology, engineering, and math
The theory that explains how species evolve over time through natural selection was proposed by ____.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Apple’s digital assistant, introduced in 2011, is called this.
What is Siri?
Engineers use this type of drawing to plan the dimensions and details of a structure or product.
What is a blueprint?
This measure of central tendency is found by adding all the numbers in a data set and dividing by the number of values.
What is the mean (average)?
The next number in the sequence: 2, 4, 8, 16, …
What is 32?
The protiens that speed up chemical reactions, and behave as a catalyst.
What are enzymes?
Microsoft was founded in 1975 by this duo.
Who are Bill Gates and Paul Allen?
This civil engineering marvel in ancient Rome still stands today and used arches to support its massive structure.
What is an aqueduct?
NASA mathematician whose calculations helped send astronauts to space.
Mary Jackson
The chemical symbol for gold.
What is Au?
'An object at rest stays at rest, and an object in motion stays in motion at a constant velocity (same speed and direction) unless acted on by an external force." This is known as ______ First Law, the Law of _____.
What is Newton's First Law, the Law of Intertia?
In Ancient Egypt this timekeeping device, often found in temples, used the sun to measure hours of the day.
What is a sundial?
Engineers often use this type of software to model and simulate structures before building them.
What is CAD (Computer-Aided Design)?
Ancient Egyptians used these symbols, called hieroglyphs, to represent numbers for counting and recording goods.
What are hieroglyphs?
Light travels faster in air than in water. True or False.
What is True?
This law states that the pressure of a gas is inversely proportional to its volume at a constant temperature.
What is Boyle's Law?
This Greek engineer is famous for inventing simple machines like the screw and compound pulley.
Who is Archimedes?
The ancient region home to the invention of irrigation systems.
What is Mesopotamia?
This rule allows you to evaluate limits that give indeterminate forms like 0/0 or ∞/∞.
What is L’Hôpital’s Rule?
What DNA stands for.
What is Deoxyribonucleic acid?