Jeopardy By Minorities in STEM

Biology

100

This process in plants converts sunlight, water, and CO2, into glucose and oxygen.

P

200

This type of blood cell fights infection and includes lymphocytes.

White blood cells

300

This process copies DNA into RNA and is the first step of gene expression.

Transcription

400

This molecule in red blood cells binds and carries oxygen throughout the body.

hemoglobin

500

This phase of mitosis is when chromosomes line up along the cell’s equator.

metaphase

Astronomy

100

This unit equals the distance light travels in one year.

A light year

200

This is the name for a star’s explosive death.

A supernova

300

This belt of rocky objects lies between Mars and Jupiter

Asteroid Belt

400

This gas giant rotates on its side, tilted about 98 degrees.

Uranus

500

This astronomer’s laws describe how planets move in elliptical orbits.

Johannes Kepler

Technology

100

This is the brain of a computer, often abbreviated with three letters.

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

200

This company makes the GPUs that dominate AI and Gaming

NVIDIA

300

This company developed Android

Google

400

This data structure follows Last-In-First-Out ordering.

Stack

500

This programming paradigm organizes code around objects and classes

Object-oriented programming

Engineering

100

This shape is used in bridges because it distributes force evenly

Triangle

200

This unit measures power and is named after a Scottish engineer

Watt

300

This alloy of iron and carbon is the most widely used structural material in the world

Steel

400

This element, with symbol W, has the highest melting point of any metal.

Tungsten

500

This engineer and inventor developed alternating current (AC) and rivaled Thomas Edison

Nikola Tesla

Math

100

This type of number can only be divided evenly by 1 and itself.

Prime number

200

This sequence starts 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, where each number is the sum of the two before it.

Fibonacci sequence

300

In statistics, this measure of spread is the square root of the variance.

Standard Deviation

400

This rule in calculus is used to differentiate a function inside another function.

The chain rule

500

This distribution, shaped like a bell curve, is defined by its mean and standard deviation.

The normal (Gaussian) distribution