Sonic
Supersonic refers to going faster than this
The speed of sound
The system that protects your body from foreign objects and yourself
The immune system
Ice floats in water because when water freezes it does this
expand
The German physicist who famously came up with E = M*C^2
Albert Einstein
The capacity to do work
Energy
The technology that bounces sound waves off objects to determine their distance
SONAR (SOund Navigation And Ranging)
This infectious agent may not be considered alive by most, yet is able to hijack cells and force them to make copies of itself
A virus
Unlike positive buoyancy where objects float, neutral buoyancy is when an objects density matches that of the density of the fluid its in. Causing objects to do this
Hover (at a fixed depth)
Charles Darwin
A type of potential energy an object has due to its position in a gravitational field
Gravitational energy (gravitational potential energy)
Sound waves are these type of waves
longitudinal, mechanical, pressure waves
Considered to be the first line of defense for your immune system, its also the largest organ
Skin
In order to minimize the risk of capsizing (flipping over) boats have a center of gravity located here
Low
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize with her ground breaking work in radiation
Marie Curie
An energy that is released when a chemical reaction occurs
Chemical Engery
Destructive interference, used by active sound cancelling headphones, works by doing this
Creating an inverted sound wave
This protein is used by the immune system to identify and neutralize unwanted guests in the body
antibody
Just like in air, underwater wings can provide lift to boats with this design
Hydrofoil
The English primatologist who studied chimpanzees in Tanzania
Jane Goodall
"Primary producers" often the lowest level of the food chain get their energy from this
The Sun
This gene in the human genome is a protein coding gene critical for embryonic development, yet its famous among gamers for its name
Sonic Hedge Hog gene (SHH)
A retrovirus doesn't inject DNA into a host cell but instead uses this nucleic acid
RNA
A ships weight is not measured on standard scale, but its weight is measured by this
Known as the founder of modern genetics his laws are still taught in biology classes today
Gregor Mendel
This describes the energy needed to remove an electron from an atom
Ionization energy