What The Element
What is the lightest element in the universe?
Hydrogen
What natural phenomenon is essentially a giant discharge of static electricity?
Lightning
Sadly passing away in 2025 this female scientist pioneered our understanding of apes and chimpanzees.
Jane Goodall
Sharing its name with a popular band, what is the deepest known point in the Earth’s oceans?
Mariana's Trench
How many elements are on the periodic table?
118
AC/DC is an awesome rock bank but in the world of electricity, what does it stand for?
Alternating current, direct current.
Despite being centuries apart, these two men were known as the fathers of physics.
Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.
This reef-dwelling fish eats coral and excretes sand, so much so that up to 70% of Caribbean beach sand comes from this species. It shares its name with a brightly-coloured bird. What fish is it?
Parrotfish
With an atomic number of 88, this element also shares its name with a small town in British Columbia, known for its hot springs.
Radium
Thinking of attraction and repulsion: what is the fundamental force that dictates how electricity work?
Magnetism (Electromagnetism)
This famous science explorer pioneered our understanding of evolution.
Charles Darwin
Pacific salmon live at sea but return thousands of kilometres to the streams where they were born to spawn. There are five main species: Pink, Chinook, Coho, Chum, and which other?
What group of elements has the highest valence electrons?
The Noble Gases
Electrical wall sockets often come with 3 wires. What are the names of those wires?
Hot, neutral, and ground.
This female scientist pioneered research in radioactivity and discovered the elements polonium and radium, she also has laneway named after her at UOttawa.
Marie Curie
The mantis shrimp has one of the most complex visual systems in the animal kingdom. While humans have three types of color receptors, how many does a mantis shrimp have?
12