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Name 5 Science Olympiad events.
Example: What is Codebusters, Crimebusters, and Mission Possible?
These form from snow and run off and have a significant impact on geography.
What is a glacier?
This American statesman and inventor installed a rod on his home to test his theory that the tall metallic rod would attract lightning.
Benjamin Franklin
This is the formula to find Density?
Density = Mass / Volume
The person who proved that the sum of the squares of the lengths of the legs of a right triangle equals the square of the length of the hypotenuse.
Who is Pythagoras?
These stellar explosions occur when a massive star collapses at the end of its life.
What is Supernova?
What are sesamoid bones?
Round, circular bones (patella).
Edward Jenner developed the concept of vaccination as well as a smallpox vaccine based on this other more mild disease.
Cowpox
Light travels at 3 × 10⁵ km/s. It takes this many seconds for light to reach Earth from the Sun (1.5 × 10⁸ km away).
What is 500 seconds?
The guy famous for E=mc^2
Who is Albert Einstein
The alveoli in the lungs are specialized for this process.
What is gas exchange?
RNA stands for....
What is ribonucleic acid?
In this year, Watson and Crick published a paper that outlined the double helix structure of DNA
1953
The molarity of a solution made by dissolving 0.5 moles of NaCl in 1.0 L of water.
What is 0.5M?
The first person to discover the shape of DNA (double helix).
Rosalind Franklin.
This galaxy is on a collision course with the Milky Way.
What is the Andromeda Galaxy (M31)?
The flagellum of a bacterium is primarily used for this purpose.
Mobility
The oldest branch of science.
What is astronomy?
Something is considered aerodynamic if it reduces this.
What is the drag?
The person who introduced Arabic numerals (like 1, 2, 3) to Europe.
Who is Fibonacci?
This principle states that buoyant force equals the weight of displaced fluid.
What is Archimedes’ principle?
Factors in an ecosystem that are not alive.
What is abiotic.
This is what Alexander Flemming discovered in 1928.
Penecillin
The larger the star is, the ____ luminous it is.
more
Two people who discovered/invented calculus.
Who are Gottfried Leibniz and Isaac Newton?
The layer of Earth where convection currents drive plate tectonics.
What is the mantle (asthenosphere)?
These are some of the oldest fossils, and are considered layers of sediment and microorganisms, such as cyanobacteria, that keep an important record of ancient climate and life.
What are stromatolites
1869
Binary number systems, often found in computer programming, use only these two digits.
1 and 0
This person is considered the father of genetics.
Gregor Mendel