Metric Prefixes
ONE THOUSAND METERS (10^3)
What is a kilometer?
IT’S THE “I” IN ROYGBIV, A MNEMONIC FOR THE COLORS OF THE VISIBLE LIGHT SPECTRUM
What is indigo?
SOME FOLKS LOAD UP ON THESE BEFORE HARD EXERCISE BECAUSE THEY ARE AN EASILY DIGESTIBLE SOURCE OF ENERGY
What are carbohydrates?
IN 2022, DOCTORS TRANSPLANTED A GENE EDITED HEART FROM THIS ANIMAL INTO A HUMAN FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME
What is a pig?
This game allows you to buy and sell properties, avoid jail time, and draw chance cards
What is Monopoly?
What is milliliter
IN PHYSICS, THIS TYPE OF “BODY” IS A SURFACE THAT ABSORBS ALL THE RADIATION THAT FALLS ON IT
What is a blackbody?
IT’S THE 2-WORD NAME FOR THE SPIRAL GEOMETRIC STRUCTURE OF A DNA MOLECULE
What is a double helix?
IBM WATSON IS A POPULAR EARLY EXAMPLE OF THESE COMPUTER SYSTEMS THAT CAN NOW PREDICT THE 3D STRUCTURE OF A PROTEIN IN SECONDS
What is artificial intelligence?
In this board game, every players gets to try for world domination with the use of the armies at his or her disposal. To win, one must be a good strategist, and lucky with dice.
What is Risk?
What is gigabyte?
FOSSILIZED PLANTS AND INSECTS ARE OFTEN FOUND IN SPECIMENS OF THIS COLORFULLY NAMED RESIN FROM TREES
What is amber?
THESE COMPOUNDS ARE CALLED THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF PROTEINS
What are amino acids?
THIS TELESCOPE, LAUNCHED AT THE END OF 2021, QUICKLY BROKE THE RECORD FOR MOST DISTANT GALAXY EVER OBSERVED
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
In the United States, the traditional colors of the game markers for this board game are red and black.
What is Checkers?
ONE MILLIONTH OF A GRAM (10^-6)
What is microgram?
IN ASTRONOMY, IT DESCRIBES AN INCREASE IN THE WAVELENGTH AND CORRESPONDING DECREASE IN THE FREQUENCY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION OBSERVED WHEN AN OBJECT IS MOVING AWAY FROM US
What is redshift?
THEY PUT THE “NA” IN DNA AND RNA
What are nucleic acids?
SCIENTISTS AT LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY SUCCESSFULLY PRODUCED THIS REACTION RESULTING IN A NET ENERGY GAIN...YOU’RE NOT THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN NOW, SUN!
What is nuclear fusion?
This popular racing board game for young children requires no reading, minimal counting skills, and is woven around a storyline featuring every kid's favorite food.
What is Candyland?
ONE TRILLIONTH OF A SECOND (10^-12)
What is picosecond?
FROM THE GREEK FOR “COLOR WRITING”, IT’S A LABORATORY TECHNIQUE FOR SEPARATION OF A MIXTURE INTO ITS COMPONENTS
What is chromatography?
CHOLESTEROL IS AN EXAMPLE OF THIS GROUP OF BIOLOGICAL MOLECULES THAT HAVE POOR WATER SOLUBILITY
What is a lipid or a fatty acid?
THIS GENE-EDITING TECHNOLOGY HOLDS GREAT PROMISE FOR THE TREATMENT OF HEREDITARY DISEASES LIKE SICKLE CELL AND BETA THALASSEMIA
What is CRISPR?
In this game, the player is a doctor that must perform a mock surgery by removing plastic objects from the patient's body without touching the edges of the incisions.
What is Operation?