The primary element focused on in organic chemistry.
What is carbon?
100
An English naturalist known for his contribution to evolutionary theory and theory of natural selection.
What is Charles Darwin?
100
A threadlike structure of nucleic acids and proteins carrying genetic information in the form of genes.
What is a chromosome?
100
The only present downward force when an object is dropped from rest on earth.
What the force of gravity?
100
A crucial invention created by the Mesopotamians around 3500 BC for potters, 300 years before they were used for chariots.
What is the wheel?
200
The name of the group of elements in the second to last column of the periodic table.
What is halogens?
200
A Swedish chemist known for his invention of dynamite, who also has an award named after him.
What is Alfred Nobel?
200
The organelle in plant cells that is responsible for containing chlorophyll and where photosynthesis takes place.
What is chloroplasts?
200
The term for the result of velocity divided by time, measured in meters/second^2.
What is acceleration?
200
The numeric invention credited to the Gupta empire for using and adding to their number system.
What is the number zero?
300
The name of an atom of an element that has a negative charge.
What is an anion?
300
An Austrian neurologist known as the "Father of Psychoanalysis".
What is Sigmund Freud?
300
A type of virus that only infects and reproduces in bacteria cells.
What is a bacteriophage?
300
The term for any force that is directed toward the center during circular motion.
What is a centripetal force?
300
The names of the brothers who invented the first functioning airplane capable of flight, known as the pioneers of aviation.
What is Wilbur and Orville Wright?
400
The type of compound formed by a metal and a nonmetal.
What is ionic?
400
A Polish-French physicist and chemist known for discovering Radium and Polonium.
What is Marie Curie?
400
The largest currently living land mammal on earth.
What is African Elephant?
400
The ratio between the force necessary to move one surface horizontally over another, and the pressure between the two surfaces.
What is the coefficient of friction?
400
A theoretical physicist known to be the "father of the atomic bomb," who was a part of the Manhattan Project, and recited at the Trinity test, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds".
What is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
500
The name of the intermolecular force (IMF) present in all atoms and molecules.
What is London Dispersion Forces?
500
A Swedish botanist who laid the foundation for biological naming by creating binomial nomenclature.
What is Carolus Linnaeus?
500
The number of bones in an adult human body.
What is 206?
500
The term for oscillatory movement from a force proportional to the amount of displacement from equilibrium.
What is simple harmonic motion?
500
The most famous invention by Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist, aside from the discovery of methane.