This planet rotates so slowly that its day is longer than its year.
What is Venus?
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse” of the cell.
What is the mitochondrion?
This is the first element on the periodic table.
What is hydrogen?
This is the largest lizard alive today.
What is the Komodo dragon?
He’s known for discovering gravity and creating the laws of motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This is the invisible edge around a black hole where nothing can escape.
What is the event horizon?
These proteins help speed up chemical reactions in your body.
What are enzymes?
This element has the highest melting point and is used in strong metals.
What is tungsten?
This land animal has the longest pregnancy.
What is the African elephant?
Her X-ray work helped reveal DNA’s double helix shape.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This icy moon of Saturn shoots water from its surface into space.
What is Enceladus?
This process lets plants take nitrogen and turn it into useful compounds.
What is nitrogen fixation?
This radioactive element is named after a planet.
What is uranium?
This sea animal has three hearts and blue-colored blood.
What is the octopus?
He is famous for explaining how species evolve over time.
Who is Charles Darwin?
This famous telescope has helped us discover galaxies and nebulae from orbit since 1990.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
This is the term for a cell’s natural, programmed death.
What is Apoptosis?
This metal is solid at room temp but melts if you hold it in your hand.
What is gallium?
This bird from Australia can mimic chainsaws and camera clicks.
What is the lyrebird?
He helped explain chemical reactions and is called the father of modern chemistry.
Who is Antoine Lavoisier?
This kind of star may form when a white dwarf gains too much mass.
What is a neutron star?
This small cell structure acts like an antenna to sense the environment.
What is the primary cilium?
This element was named after the scientist who created the periodic table.
What is mendelevium?
This slow-moving primate has a toxic bite.
What is the slow loris?
He created the uncertainty principle in quantum physics.
Who is Werner Heisenberg?