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A person who thinks and tries to figure things out.
What is a philosopher?
Born circa 625 BC he travelled from Miletus to Egypt in order to learn math.
Who is Thales (of Miletus)?
670,616,629 miles per hour.
What is the speed of light?
When a candle burns, its wax interacts with oxygen in the air to make this (a liquid at room temperature).
What is water?
This describes how high or low is a musical note.
What is pitch?
Born circa 570 BC and living in Samos, he loved music and math.
Who is Pythagoras?
All of space and the time, energy, and matter contained there.
What is the universe?
Two of the same musical note that are different pitches are separated by this (or these)?
What is an octave? or What are octaves?
The peak of a sound wave.
What is a crest?
Born circa 460 BC, he promoted the idea that everything is made of atoms.
Who is Democritus?
A measure of how many particles are packed in a given space.
What is density?
The valley of a sound wave.
What is a trough?
Tiny particles that make up all matter.
What are atoms?
Born in 384 BC, he believed that objects fell to the earth because they were made of earth and wanted to get back to where they belonged.
Who is Aristotle?
A theory that proposes that the universe started in one intense explosion about 14 billion years ago.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
Three states of matter.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
The three basic parts of an atom.
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
He composed the prayer we say at the beginning of every class.
Who is St. Francis?
A region of space in the night sky where a collection of bright stars outline a particular shape or pattern.
What is a constellation?
The patron saint of Astronomers.
Who is St. Dominic?