C 1. Science facts
This scientist discovered gravity by watching an apple fall—thankfully not onto his head.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This protects your stomach from strong acid and prevents your stomach from digesting itself.
What is a mucus lining?
This plant traps and eats insects.
What is the Venus Flytrap?
In space, astronauts float because of this condition.
What is microgravity?
Before the 1800s, surgery was torture. The discovery that ether and chloroform could be used as this allowed patients to sleep through the pain.
What is Anesthesia?
This is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
What is Mercury?
Humans share about 60% of their DNA with this common food.
What is a banana?
Octopuses have blue blood due to the presence of this metal in their blood.
What is copper?
The first living mammal cloned from an adult cell was this animal.
What is Dolly the sheep?
In 1796, Edward Jenner used material from cowpox sores to create the first vaccine, eradicating this disease which had plagued humanity for centuries.
What is Smallpox?
This gas makes up 78% of Earth’s atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
This organ was once thought useless but is now known to help immunity.
What is the appendix?
The fastest land animal can reach nearly 120 km/h.
What is the cheetah?
This animal has blue blood.
What is an Octopus?
This invention improved global supply of plant based foods by increasing the availability of key nutrients in the soil.
What are chemical fertilizers?
This metal is highly reactive, explodes when dropped into water, and also reacts with air; therefore stored in oil.
What is sodium/potassium?
It accounts for approximately 2% of our body mass and utilizes around 20% of our oxygen and blood supply.
What is a brain?
This body organ has three lobes and can partly regrow when damaged.
What is the liver?
On the Moon, this lasts about two Earth weeks.
What is the length of daytime on the moon relative to earth days?
The accidental discovery of this life-saving medicine happened because a scientist couldn't clean his messy lab.
What is Penicillin?
An inventor known for his Growth mindset exemplified by his quote, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Who is Thomas Edison?
This is an organ of our body that is completely replaced about 1,000 times during a person’s lifetime.
What is a skin?
There are more of these tiny organisms living in your body than human cells
What are bacteria?
One day on this planet is 60 days on Earth.
What is Mercury?
This space telescope, launched in 1990, allowed scientists to observe distant galaxies and expand our understanding of the universe.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?