International Space Station (ISS)
How many European countries helped to build the International Space Station?
What is 15?
This was launched by the USSR in 1957. It was the world‘s first artificial satellite.
What is Sputnik?
This Web of documents and resources is often confused with the Internet itself, but it sits on top of it.
What is the World Wide Web?
Who are the two scientist most famous for discovering the double helix structure of DNA in 1953?
Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?
Who is the “Father of Green Revolution” that saved many, many people from starving?
Who is Norman Borlaug?
The first vehicle of the International Space Station, launched by Russia in 1988, has what name?
What is Zarya?
This was a US owned system that used a constellation of satellites to provide users with precise location and timing.
What is Global Positioning System?
This US Department of defense agency created the “Arpanet”, the first version to the modern internet.
What is the DARPA?
What is the international research project that was completed in 2003 and successfully mapped all the genes in the human body?
What is the Human Genome Project?
The Green Revolution was mostly about making way more of these two crops.
What are wheat and rice?
Where is the International Space Station located?
What is 250 miles above earth?
This type of orbit allows a satellite to stay fixed over a single point on Earth‘s surface
What is Geostationary Orbit?
Who is the British computer scientist that was credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989?
Who is Tim-Berners-Lee?
What is the name of the new DNA scissors tool that lets scientist edit genes really easily?
What us CRISPR?
What are the chemicals that farmers started using to keep bugs from eating their crops?
What are pesticides?
Because of the international space station speed astronauts on board experience how many sunrises in sunsets every 24 hours?
What is 16?
These small cube shaped satellites have made it much cheaper for small companies to reach space.
What are CubeSats?
What is the protocol that was abbreviated as TCP/IP, which acted as the language that let computers talk to each other?
What is internet protocol?
What was the name of the sheep that became the first ever mammal to be cloned?
Who is Dolly?
Which country is the best example of Green Revolution working since they went from having no food to being a huge food seller?
What is India?
What 2011 event marked the end of the US‘s program that was essential for hauling heavy vehicles to the International Space Station?
What is the retirement of the Space Shuttle program?
This NASA program started in 1972. It used satellites to create the longest continuous space record of Earth’s land surface.
What is Landsat?
What was the first widely used web browser that allowed people to see images alongside text?
What is Mosaic?
Who is the woman whose X-Ray photos proved what DNA looked like even though she didn’t get credit back then?
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
What was the process of just picking the best plants to breed together before high-tech GMO‘s?
What is selective breeding?