Breast cancer awareness
What color ribbon represents breast cancer awareness?
What is pink?
What gas makes dry ice “smoke”?
What is carbon dioxide?
This American astrophysicist, born in October 1958, is known for his work in cosmology, science communication (think Spacetime Odyssey)
Neil deGrasse Tyson
In what month are Nobel Prizes typically announced?
What is October?
What pigment gives leaves their green color?
What is chlorophyll?
In what month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month observed?
What is October?
What human organ is most associated with fear?
What is the brain?
This Danish physicist, born in October 1885, developed a model of the atom and won a Nobel Prize in 1922.
Who is Niels Bohr?
What are the three main Nobel Prize categories in science?
What are Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology or Medicine?
What is the term for animals preparing for winter by storing food or increasing body fat?
What is hibernation?
What type of imaging test is commonly used to detect breast cancer?
What is a mammogram?
What metal causes blood to appear red?
What is iron?
This scientist is often called the “father of electricity” and has a unit of electric charge named after him.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Which scientist won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the photoelectric effect?
Who is Albert Einstein?
What environmental cue triggers most deciduous trees to begin shedding their leaves in the fall?
What is shortening day length
What two genes, when mutated, significantly increase breast cancer risk?
What are BRCA1 and BRCA2?
What kind of scientist might study zombies, based on their brain function?
What is a neuroscientist?
Which real-life science idea inspired Frankenstein's idea of reanimating the dead?
What is galvanism?
Which female scientist was the first to win two Nobel Prizes?
Who is Marie Curie?
What class of enzymes breaks down the cell walls in the leaf’s abscission zone?
Cellulase
What does the term “metastasis” refer to in cancer?
What is the spread of cancer cells to other parts of the body?
What phenomenon might cause someone to “see a ghost” due to lack of oxygen at high altitudes?
What is hallucination?
his woman, born in October 1930, helped develop the field of X-ray crystallography and worked on DNA structure.
Who is Dorothy Hodgkin?
This young climate activist, known for sparking a global movement based on scientific evidence about climate change.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
The hardening of plant tissues to resist freezing in winter is called?
What is cold acclimation?