Neuroscience
Chemistry of Life
Physics is my Business
Environmental Problems
Nobel Laureates
100
General term for someone who studies the nervous system
What is a neuroscientist?
100
A biological compound that is not soluble in water, e.g. a fat
What is a lipid?
100
A sound's repetition by reflection.
What is an echo?
100
This gas would increase in a number of trees is significantly reduced in a forest.
What is carbon dioxide.
100
The first woman to a win a Nobel prize for her pioneering research on radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie?
200
Uses detection of radio frequency signals produced by displaced radio waves in a magnetic field.
What is MRI? (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)
200
An organic compound, either RNA or DNA, whose molecules are made up of one or two chains of nucleotides and carry genetic information
What is a nucleic acid?
200
Detection of gamma rays was 1 of the uses for this 1947 instant picture taker.
What is a Polaroid-land camera?
200
This has increased due to better farming techniques and advances in medicine.
What is the human population growth?
200
This first Russian Nobel Laureate was most known for his work with classical conditioning.
Who was Ivan Pavlov?
300
Electrical activity of the brain recorded with scalp or brain electrodes.
What is an EEG? (Electroencephalography)
300
The state in which the particles of a substance are mixed with a fluid but are undissolved
What is a suspension?
300
After length, width and depth, the 4th dimension?
What is time?
300
Produced when sulfur dioxide is mixed with moisture in the air and falls to the earth as rain, snow, or sleet.
What is acid rain?
300
He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "services to theoretical physics", in particular his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, a pivotal step in the evolution of quantum theory.
Who was Albert Einstein?
400
Scanning method that detects radioactive material that is injected or inhaled to produce an image of the brain.
What is PET? (Positron Emission Tomography)
400
A biological compound containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen that is an important source of food and energy
What is a carbohydrate?
400
Negative particle that orbits an atom's nucleus?
What is an electron?
400
An example of this is the Asian Carp. An Asian carp makes its way into the Great Lakes after swimming through the Chicago Ship and Sanitary Canal. The Asian carp is a nonnative species.
What is an exotic species?
400
He made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
Who was Niels Bohr?
500
Brain scan that uses a series of X-ray beams passed through the head.
What is a CT Scan? (Computed Tomography Scan)
500
A group of atoms that reacts as a single unit and determines the properties and structure of a class of compounds.
What is a functional group?
500
Shattering sound that accompanies breaking the sound barrier.
What is a sonic boom?
500
The removal of trees on a large scale.
What is deforestation?
500
She was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing the technique for visualizing maize chromosomes and used microscopic analysis to demonstrate many fundamental genetic ideas.
Who was Barbara McClintock
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