STEM Fundamentals
This part of the scientific method is when you make an educated guess about what will happen.
What is a hypothesis?
This inventor is credited with creating a practical light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
12 × 8 equals this number
What is 96?
This thing goes up but never comes down.
Engineers often build this smaller version of a design before making the real product.
What is a prototype?
The force that pulls objects toward Earth.
What is gravity?
These two brothers invented and flew one of the first successful airplanes.
Who are Orville and Wilbur Wright?
A triangle with all three sides equal is called this.
What is an equilateral triangle?
This number comes next in the pattern: 2, 4, 8, 16, ___.
What is 32?
This simple machine uses a wheel and a rope to lift heavy objects with less effort.
What is a pulley?
This state of matter has no fixed shape but does have a fixed volume.
What is a liquid?
This invention allows people to talk to others instantly over long distances using wireless signals.
What is a cellphone?
This fraction represents two parts out of four equal parts of a whole.
What is 1/2?
You see me once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May.
What is the letter “E”?
This type of engineer designs buildings, roads, and bridges.
Who is a civil engineer?
This tool is commonly used to measure temperature in science experiments.
What is a thermometer?
This famous inventor and engineer developed alternating current (AC) electrical systems.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
This is the value of π (pi) rounded to two decimal places.
What is 3.14?
A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 run away. How many are left?
What is 9?
This famous structure in Paris was originally built as an engineering demonstration for the 1889 World’s Fair.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
This branch of STEM focuses on writing code and creating software programs.
What is computer science?
This invention by Johannes Gutenberg helped spread books and knowledge across Europe.
What is the printing press?
A train moving 60 miles per hour will travel this far in 3.5 hours.
What is 210 miles?
The more of me there is, the less you can see.
What is darkness?
Bridges are designed to handle two main forces: tension and this pushing force.
What is compression?