Halley and Fahrenheit
Fahrenheit, Fairchild, and Wortley
Wortley and Maupertuis
Maupertuis and
Celsius
Hales and Science
100
This is when a substance changes from a solid to a gas without becoming a liquid first.
What is sublimation?
100
This is the temperature at which water freezes on the Fahrenheit temperature scale.
What is "32 degrees"?
100
This disease made scar-causing blisters on a person's skin, and was fatal about 30% of the time.
What is "smallpox"?
100
Maupertuis studied the history of a family with this condition in which people have more than five fingers or toes.
What is "polydactyly"?
100
These are the things we see and write down during an experiment.
What are "data or observations"?
200
A comet become visible in our night sky when it comes close to this.
What is the sun?
200
This is the temperature at which water boils on the Fahrenheit scale.
What is "212 degrees"?
200
This is the process of giving someone a mild case of a disease to prevent a deadly case later.
What is "inoculation"?
200
Maupertuis' study of polydactyly helped scientist begin to understand that we inherit our traits from both our ________ and our _________.
Who are "mothers and fathers"?
200
Stephen Hales believed that our best understanding of the world comes when we do this.
What is "make strong scientific observations" or "weigh and measure" or "take data".
300
The tail of a comet always points in this direction.
What is "away from the sun"?
300
When parents from two different species have offspring, the offspring is called this.
What is "a hybrid"?
300
Lady Mary Wortley gave inoculations to these two people to prove to England that she believed in the effectiveness of the procedure.
Who are "her own children"?
300
True or False: The boiling point of water is the same everywhere on earth.
What is "false"?
300
This is the name for the movement of water up from the roots and out to the leaves.
What is "transpiration"?
400
Most substances undergo this physical change when heated.
What is "they expand"?
400
I can name a real hybrid animal.
What is a _____________?
400
Around two thousand years ago, most natural philosophers already believed the world had this shape.
What is "round"?
400
This is the freezing point of water on the Celsius temperature scale we use today.
What is "0 degrees"?
400
When we are doing research and taking notes, we should always do this so we aren't "stealing information".
What is "write down your sources"?
500
Fahrenheit chose this liquid to use in the thermometer he created.
What is "mercury"?
500
Lady Mary Wortley was the wife of the British Ambassador to this country, where she saw women giving inoculations to children.
What is "Turkey"?
500
Maupertuis used the measurements and calculations from his expedition to show that the real shape of the earth was slightly ___________________ at the poles, and ___________________ around the equator in the middle.
What are "flattened" and "fatter (or wider)"?
500
This is the boiling point of water at sea level on the Celsius temperature scale we use today.
What is "100 degrees"?
500
Of these two temperature, 100F and 100C, this one is the hottest.
What is "100 C"?
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