Ancient Cultures
The ancient Egyptian freeway
What is the River Nile?
Mowglie's arch nemesis.
What is a Tiger?
The simple machine medieval europeans used to lift large blocks of stone to build castles.
What is a pulley?
Sailors did this to prevent the wood on their ships from splitting
What is "swabbing the deck"?
A place in the human body where bacteria are a good thing.
What is the digestive system?
The Greek Goddess of the hunt
Who is Artemis?
This fish lives in the coldest water on earth and can live up to 500 years.
What is the Greenland Shark?
Electromagnetic radiation moves in this way.
What are waves?
This spanish explorer Conquered the Aztecs in what is now modern day Mexico City, killing the last Aztec King, Montezuma the II.
Who was Hernan Cortes?
Unlike bacteria, this disease causing, non living packet of genetic material requires a living cell to invade and reproduce within.
What is a virus?
A frenzied scandinavian warrior
What is a Berzerker?
An extinct, flightless, bird that was found in the North Atlantic region that resembles a penguin.
What is The Great Auk?
A highly flammable gas that the Hindenburg was filled with.
What is Hydrogen?
This explorer was made the governor of the place he discovered, but was later arrested for doing a bad job.
Who was Christopher Columbus.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, a dutch fabric merchant, named the creatures he discovered in his pond water this.
What are animalcules?
The wild, ancient, ancestor of modern domesticated corn.
What is a teosinte?
Any mammal that has hooves.
What is an Ungulate?
Spiders lack muscles, and use this to move instead.
What is hydraulics?
These explorers spent a whole month portaging around the great falls on the Missouri river.
Who was Lewis and Clark?
What occupation of people did Edward Jenner observe were immune to small pox, kickstarting his development for the world's first true vaccine?
What are Milkmaids?
This type of item was found at Chaco indicating widespread travel and trade among ancient native american peoples.
What are Seashells?
The 5 characteristics of animals classified as mammals
What are hair or fur, mammary glands, 3 middle earbones, single jawbone, and a neocortex brain structure?
This mechanical device transfers rotary motion to linear motion.
What is a rack and pinion?
This explorer was the first to make it around the cape of good hope to India. His risky route took him far away from the African coast to catch better winds before finally coming around the cape.
Who was Vasco de Gama?
The process of a single celled organism dying, characterized by the rupture of it's cell wall.
What is Necrosis?