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Your suitcase and purse may get one of these if you travel by airplane.

What is an X-Ray?

100

James Watson and Francis Crick were awarded a Nobel Prize for this discovery in 1953. What did they discover?

It was DNA.

100

Isaac Newton discovered this in 1664 *It keeps us "grounded"

 Gravity

100
This disease can be spread by drug abuse using shared needles
What is HIV/AIDS?
100
We need this to have our lights work
What is electricity?
200
This man used heat and disinfectants to kill bacteria
Who is Louis Pasteur?
200
This man made milk safe to drink.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
200
In 1859, Charles Darwing came up with theory
What is the Theory of Evolution?
200
George Lemaitre felt that all matter in the universe was compressed into a tiny dot and in a fraction of a second did this
What is exploded?
200
This invention was shown to fight bacteria like Strep throat and ear infections
What are antibiotics?
300
This man was awarded the first ever Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901
Who is Wilhelm Roentgen?
300
Alexander Fleming discovered this in 1928
What is Penicillin?
300
X-Rays go through substances like flesh and wood but are stopped by these substances
What are bones and lead?
300
The study of DNA may someday prevent these illnesses
What are cancer and heart disease?
300
This force is what draws objects toward each other according to Isaac Newton
What is gravity?
400

In 1945 one of these was dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

An atomic bomb

400
This theory was made in 1905 by Albert Einstein
What is the Theory of Relativity?
400
The Theory of Relativity explains the relationship between speed, time, and _____________
What is distance?
400
This man was known as the greatest scientist of all time
Who is Isaac Newton?
400
DNA can determine things like this about us
What is color of eyes and hair?
500
in 1927 Georges Lemaitre gave this theory about how the universe came into existence
What is The Big Bang Theory?
500
In 1543 Nicholas Copernicus published this theory while he was on his deathbed
What is The Copernicum System
500
Before the Copernicum System astronomers believed that this planet was at the center of the universe
What is the Earth?
500
1n 1902, Niels Bohr won a Nobel Prize in Physics for this theory
What is Quantum Theory?
500
In the early 1940s some of the greatest scientists of the time worked on this project
What is The Manhattan Project?