People in History
This mathematician was the first African-American woman to work as a NASA scientist.
Katherine Johnson
The first human to walk on the moon travelling in the Apollo 11, in 1969.
Neil Armstrong
The process by which plants make their own food using sunlight.
Photosynthesis
This number has the most synonyms: nil, nada, zilch, zip, nought, and many more.
0
This company created and released the iPhone.
Apple
This person is most often credited with the invention of Calculus.
Isaac Newton
The first human in space, orbiting the earth in the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
Yuri Gagarin
The most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere.
Nitrogen
The term for a number that can only be divided by 1 and itself.
Prime number
The technology that allows a user to interact with a computer by voice alone.
Voice recognition
She worked as both a physicist and chemist at a time when it was still quite uncommon to see women in these fields. She was famous for discovering the elements polonium and radium alongside her husband.
Marie Curie
Spacecraft that took the famous "Pale Blue Dot" photo of earth from deep space.
Voyager 1
A renewable energy source that uses moving water to generate power.
Hydropower (or hydroelectric power)
This field of mathematics is concerned with the sines, cosines, and tangents of angles.
Trigonometry
This inventor held over 1,000 patents and developed the phonograph and electric lightbulb.
Thomas Edison
Often called the father of geometry, he changed the way we learn about shapes.
Leonhard Euler
This telescope has provided some of the deepest and most detailed images of the universe since its launch in 1990.
The Hubble Space Telescope
The layer in Earth's atmosphere that protects us from ultraviolet radiation
Ozone layer
The sum of the of the digits of the multiples of x, is always x. x=?
9
He is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell
Considered the first computer programmer, even though she wrote about a computer, the Analytical Engine, that was never built, she realized that the computer could follow a series of simple instructions, a program, to perform a complex calculation.
Ada Lovelace
The mission that successfully landed the first rover on Mars.
Mars Pathfinder (Sojourner rover)
The process that describes the movement of carbon between the atmosphere, oceans, soil, and living organisms.
The carbon cycle
This unimaginably large number can be represented by 10 raised to the power of 100
Googol
The term for a computer virus that appears as a legitimate program to trick users.
Trojan horse