History
She became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize — and the first person ever to win two — for her work in physics and chemistry.
Who is Marie Curie?
This smallest unit of life makes up all living organisms.
What is a cell?
This force pulls objects toward the center of the Earth.
What is gravity?
This everyday device stores digital photos, apps, and messages and fits in your pocket.
What is a smartphone?
These organisms make their own food using sunlight, such as plants and some bacteria.
What are producers? (or autotrophs)
This African American mathematician, featured in Hidden Figures, calculated trajectories for NASA, including John Glenn’s orbital flight.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell” because it produces ATP.
What is the mitochondrion?
This famous scientist developed the three laws of motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This global network connects millions of computers and allows you to browse websites.
What is the internet?
These organisms break down dead plants and animals, returning nutrients to the soil.
What are decomposers?
An early computer scientist, she is often called the world’s first computer programmer for her work on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This process in plants converts sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into glucose and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
This quantity measures the average kinetic energy of particles in a substance and is what a thermometer detects.
What is temperature?
This type of software code is publicly available for anyone to view, modify, and share.
What is open-source software?
This natural cycle moves water through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
Known as the “Mother of Wi-Fi,” this Hollywood actress and inventor co-created a frequency-hopping technology later used in wireless communication.
Who is Hedy Lamarr?
This molecule carries genetic information and is shaped like a double helix.
What is DNA?
This theory proposed by Einstein states that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers and that the speed of light is constant.
What is the theory of special relativity?
This computing concept involves storing data and running applications on remote servers rather than on your personal device.
What is cloud computing?
Coral reefs, rainforests, and wetlands are known for this characteristic — having a large variety of living organisms.
What is biodiversity?
This chemist discovered the structure of DNA using X-ray crystallography, though her contributions weren’t fully recognized during her lifetime.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This evolutionary mechanism, proposed by Charles Darwin, states that organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection?
This phenomenon describes how light bends when it passes from one medium into another, causing objects to appear shifted or distorted under water.
What is refraction?
This foundational technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin uses a decentralized, tamper-resistant digital ledger.
What is blockchain?
This type of species, such as wolves in Yellowstone, has a disproportionately large impact on its ecosystem, helping maintain balance among other organisms.
What is a keystone species?