Famous Figures
This person is famous for their laws of motion and universal gravitation
Who is Isaac Newton
This is the expanded name for water
What is dihydrogen monoxide
This is an objects acceleration at the top of its path, assuming it is in projectile motion.
What is -9.8 m*s^-2 or g
This is the third planet from the sun
what is earth
This is the basic unit of life and the smallest structural unit of an organism
What is a cell
This person surrendered to the United States after World War 2, and played a key role in getting the US to the moon.
Who is Wernher von Braun
In a combustion reaction, these two substances are typically produced
What is carbon dioxide and water
This type of system allows for simple math calculations using the total energy of the system
This planet is known as Earth's sister planet due to its similar size and distance to the sun
What is Venus
This organ is responsible for pumping blood throughout the human body
This person is one of the most famous women scientists, winning two nobel prizes for her work in radiation.
Who is Marie Curie
This is the group that the element plutonium is in on the periodic table
what is the actinide group
What quantity can be described by the formula p = m*(dr/dt) where r is position?
What is momentum
This is the term used to describe a moon when it is more than half, but less than full illuminated
What is the gibbous phase
This is the term for the passing of traits from parents to offspring through the transmission of genes
what is heredity
This person made significant contributions to the development of the alternating current electrical system
Who is Nikola Tesla
This process involves the splitting of atoms, often using U-235.
What is nuclear fission
This concept in quantum mechanics states that every particle or quantum entity may be described as either a particle or a wave.
What is wave particle duality
This person is credited with discovering the four largest moons of Jupiter in 1610
Who is Galileo Galilei
This person is credited with the theory of natural selection as a mechanism for evolution
Who is Charles Darwin
This physicist is known for their formulation of the uncertainty principle and their contribution to quantum mechanics
Who is Werner Heisenberg
This is the name for when a solution contains more solute than normal under specific conditions
What is supersaturation
This equation describes how the quantum state of a physical system changes over time.
What is the big bang theory
In DNA, this nitrogenous base pairs with adenine
What is thymine