Definitions
No members of a species currently alive.
What is "Extinct"?
Began this apprenticeship at the age of 14.
What is bookbinding?
Born in 1769, he studied the difference between elephants and mammoths.
Who is (George) Cuvier?
"Thus do the truths of Natural Science continually approach nearer those of religion, so that at last both must be united in the most intimate connection."
Who is (Hans Christian) Orsted?
-273.15 degrees Celsius
What is absolute zero?
The study of how life is distributed throughout the world.
What is "Biogeography"?
His first name.
What is Michael?
Born in 1769 in Berlin, he travelled Central and South America studying plants, animals, and magnetic fields.
Who is (Alexander) von Humboldt?
"...for the book of nature, which we have to read, is written by the finger of God."
Who is (Michael) Faraday?
He said, "Most High, glorious God, enlighten the darkness of my heart..."
Who is St. Francis?
Speeds up a reaction without being consumed.
What is a "Catalyst"?
He realized that this was the shape of a magnetic force caused by electricity flowing through a wire?
What is circular?
Born in 1779 in Sweden, he developed a method for representing chemicals that is still used to this day.
Who is (Jons Jakob) Berzelius?
"Write with only one hand! Hold tightly with the other to God's raiment like a child clinging to his father's cloak!"
Who is (Andre-Marie) Ampere?
The father of electrodynamics.
Who is (Andre-Marie) Ampere?
An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation.
What is "Hypothesis"?
Faraday pictured a magnet as being surrounded by this.
What is a force field?
Born in 1744 in France, he developed a theory of trait inheritance based the frequency a body part is used.
Who is (Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de) Lamarck?
It was said that he had, "dry and, in general society, ungracious manners."
Who is (William Charles) Wells?
A magnet formed by electricity flowing through a coil of wire.
What is an electromagnet?
A mixture of a metal with some other substance.
What is an "Alloy"?
A conductor that completely surrounds an area.
What is a Faraday cage?
Born in 1776 in Italy, he developed a theory that equal volumes of gas contain equal quantities of molecules.
Who is (Amedeo) Avogadro?
"sublime author of nature"
Who is (Jean- Baptiste) Lamarck?
An alloy of zinc and copper.
What is brass?