Animals
What is the fastest animal on land?
Cheetah
What is the largest organ of the human body?
Skin
What is the largest planet in our solar system?
Jupiter
French scientist who made ground breaking research in radioactivity
Marie Curie
What temperature does water boil (in C)
100
Animals that eat both plants and meat are called what?
Omnivore
How many bones are in the human body?
206
Where is most of the freshwater on Earth located?
Ice caps and Glaciers
Who created the theory of relativity
Albert Einstein
What is the chemical symbol for carbon dioxide?
CO2
What animal kills the most humans each year?
Mosquito
What’s the name of the organ that helps filter waste from the blood
Kidneys
What is the hottest planet in our solar system?
Venus
Who is the world's expert on chimpanzees who has studied them for over 60 years (still alive and still gives lectures at 91 years old!)
Jane Goodall
What does DNA stand for?
Deoxyribonucleic acid
Which animal did Australia go to “war” with in 1932?
Emus
What is the strongest bone in the human body
Femur
What country has the most tornadoes?
USA
Who was the first American woman in space?
Sally Ride
What is it called when a solid changes directly into a gas?
Sublimation
What is the most venomous snake in the world
Inland Taipan
Which part of the eye controls how much light enters?
Pupil
What is the main gas that makes up Earth’s atmosphere?
Nitrogen
Who created the process of pasteurization (heating food to kill bacteria) as well as the rabies and cholera vaccine (also my favorite scientist!)
Louis Pasteur
What is the splitting of an atom's nucleus called?
Fission