Women in STEM
She became the first American woman to fly into space.
Who is Sally Ride?
The basic machine language a computer understands
What is binary code?
The smallest unit of life
What is a cell?
The most abundant gas in the atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
The universal force of attraction acting between all matter
What is gravity?
Discovering radium and polonium, she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
CAD is the acronym
What is computed-aided design?
This type of rock is formed by the cooling and solidification of magma.
What is igneous rock?
The equation for the Ideal Gas Law
What is PV=nRT?
An object's resistance to motion
What is inertia?
She discovered the structure of DNA which is a double helix.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This program translates programming language into machine/binary language.
What is a compiler?
This organelle acts as the waste disposal system of the cell. It breaks down macromolecules.
What are lysosomes?
A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change
What is a catalyst?
The acceleration of an object due solely to gravity
What is free fall?
These three female engineers served a vital role in launching John Glenn into orbit. They were featured in the 2016 movie, Hidden Figures.
Who are Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson?
This university is credited for the invention of Google. Hint: It is a world-renowned university, and they compete in D1 sports.
What is Stanford University?
The chemical components that differ DNA from RNA
What are thymine and uracil?
True or False: Ammonium is always soluble. Hint: NH4+
What is true?
The area in which the mass is balanced/concentrated around
What is the center of mass?
She discovered short sequences of DNA that are synthesized during DNA replication and linked together to form a continuous strand, also known as Okazaki fragments.
Who is Tsuneko Okazaki?
When the internet was first invented, it was known as this.
What is ARPANET?
The number for the fertility replacement rate, the average number of children born per woman at which a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next, without migration
What is 2.1?
Alternating cations and anions from the gaseous ions coming together in a crystalline structure
What is a crystal lattice?
After collision, an object or both objects will change shape.
What is an inelastic collision?