Life Science
Cutting a non-living body apart to study its internal parts.
What is dissection?
True or False: Atoms are indivisible.
False
Thales
Why?
The part of a lever that does not move.
What is the fulcrum?
This is what A.D. stands for.
What is Anno Domini?
Can be added to a bandage to help prevent infection.
What is wine (or alcohol)?
The center of an atom.
What is the nucleus?
Atoms
Democritus
Studies how light is made, how it travels, how it can be guided by various devices.
What is optics?
This term means that the sun is at the center of the universe.
What is heliocentrism?
Animals that have a backbone.
What are vertebrates?
Protons, Neutrons, Electrons
What are the 3 parts of an atom?
Health
Hippocrates
This is what causes a feather to fall more slowly than a rock.
What is air resistance?
Plato believed that mathematical truths came about through this process.
What is discovery?
This type of blood vessel carries blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
Form of matter that has the most energy. (Solid, liquid, or gas)
What is gas?
Eratosthenes
Circumference
This determines the pitch of a sound
What is frequency?
Hero of Alexandria's steam engine
What is an aeolipile?
When 2 different muscles work against each other, as in the biceps and triceps bending your arm at the elbow.
What is an antagonistic pair?
The term for a positive ion.
What is a cation?
Euclid
Reflection
Water pushes up with a force equal to the weight of the water that the object had to move in order to sink.
What is the Archimedes principle?
Aristotle's 5 elements.
What are air, water, fire, earth, and ether?