Astronomy
The second largest planet in the solar system
What is Saturn?
The German creator of calculus
Who is Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz?
The chemical reaction in a baking soda and vinegar rocket
What is neutralization?
This was first used in China for fireworks
What is gunpowder?
A forest filled with pine-needles trees
What is a boreal forest?
The slang name for the tail of the constellation Ursa Major
What is the Big Dipper?
Writer of 'On the Shoulder of Giants' and 'A Brief History of Time'
Who is Stephen Hawking?
The force that acted on tires so cars can turn corners
What is friction?
The first satelite to be launched into space.
What is Sputnik 1?
The most common gas in the Earth's atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
The official boundary between our solar system and the rest of the universe
What is the Oort Cloud?
His famous quote was "Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth."
Who is Archimedes?
A substance that can be convert into fat by our bodies as a form of storage
What is sugar/carbohydrates?
This invention used charged plates to move beams of electrons around on a phosphorescent screen.
What is a cathode ray tube?
The phenomenon that consists of dancing light at either the Arctic or Antarctica
What are auroras?
The method astrochemist used to determine the composition of an interstellar body
What is spectroscopy?
A family filled with FIVE Nobel Prize winners in Physics and Chemistry
Who are the members of the Curie family?
The balance of all forces acting on a building
What is equilibrium?
This invention was made popular in Europe by Johann Gutenberg.
What is the printing press?
The age of the Earth (within 0.5 billion years)
What is 4.5 billion years?
The amount of dark matter in the observable universe
What takes up 80% of all matters in the universe?
The man credited with creating the first microscope and being the first person to see microscopic life.
Who is Antonie van Leeuweenhoek?
The effect of prolonged exposure of the skin to sunlight
What are mutations?
This invention was controversial due to the number of inventors claimed to invent it, such as Thomas Edison or Alexander Graham Bell.
What is a telephone?
The term used to describe areas that can support living organisms
What is the biosphere?