Science
your brain is 60% made of this
One gigabyte is equal to these many megabytes
What is 1000?
Term that refers to the rate at which velocity changes over time, and the direction in which that change is acting. In terms of cars, it is used to refer to the act of increasing speed.
What is velocity?
This famous English mathematician is often credited as the inventor of calculus also had a deep interest in alchemy, spending many years of his life conducting secret experiments in the hope of discovering the fabled Philosopher’s Stone.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
She won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for her contribution to the understanding of radiation?
Who is Marie Curie?
Placed in the chest to monitor and correct abnormal heart rhythms, this medical device known as an "ICD" is short for "implantable cardioverter"
What is a defibrillator?
programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and named after the type of coffee from Indonesia
What is Java?
A watercourse engineered to carry water from a source to a distribution point. Used today to describe pipes, canals, and tunnels, it was most famously used in Ancient Rome, construction that stands to this day.
What is 64?
wrote the book Silent Spring which led to the banning of DDT and helped launch the modern environmental movement in the US
Who is Rachel Carson?
the term for the gradual change in species composition in an ecosystem over time
ecological succession
ByteDance is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Beijing that is most famously the owner of this mega-popular social media platform
What is Tik Tok?
A field of engineering where you work with things like glass, ceramics, metals, polymers, and nanocrystals, and even discover (or make) new substances
What is materials engineering?
Developed by Alfred Wegener, this mathematical model explains the movements related to plate tectonics.
What is continental drift?
chemist whose work was important in understanding the molecular structure of DNA
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
the process called when a gas turns into a solid without first becoming a liquid
What is deposititon?
Eric Yuan is a former Cisco engineer and executive that left the telecom giant to found this speedy meeting company in 2011. The company released its first version of their eponymous software two years later and had a "breakout year" in 2020.
What is zoom?
Engineers might use which dynamic discipline of mechanics to understand how liquids and gases move and can be affected by factors like the atmosphere and various forces
What is fluid?
Found naturally in pinecones and sunflowers, the spiral arrangement of structures and seeds follow this geometric sequence.
What is the fibonacci sequence?
computer scientist who has both a cray computer and a guided-missile destroyer named after her
Who is Admiral Grace Hopper.
The flu shot is recommended by the WHO and CDC for yearly vaccination for nearly all people over the age of six months. This animal's eggs are often used to produce this vaccine each year.
What is a hen/chicken?
Biotech that exists on a scale of one billionth of a meter is called ______biotechnology. Fill in the one word prefix, also the name of a flash memory version of the iPod Mini that was sold from 2005 to 2017.
What is nanobiotechnology?
A major potential in efforts to engineer environmental sustainability are attempts to breed bacteria that can eat these polymer-based materials that are difficult to recycle
What is plastic?
In math, the ∑ symbol, is used to represent summation but it is also known as this term.
She was credited with the term "software engineering" while developing the software for the on-board systems of the Apollo spacecraft.
Margaret Hamilton