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100

She became the first American woman to fly into space.

Who is Sally Ride?

100

The basic machine language a computer understands

What is binary code?

100

The smallest unit of life

What is a cell?

100

The most abundant gas in the atmosphere

What is nitrogen?

100

The universal force of attraction acting between all matter

What is gravity?

200

Discovering radium and polonium, she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. 

Who is Marie Curie?
200

CAD is the acronym

What is computed-aided design?

200

This type of rock is formed by the cooling and solidification of magma.

What is igneous rock?

200

The equation for the Ideal Gas Law

What is PV=nRT?

200

An object's resistance to motion

What is inertia?

300

She discovered the structure of DNA which is a double helix.

Who is Rosalind Franklin?

300

This program translates programming language into machine/binary language.

What is a compiler?

300

This organelle acts as the waste disposal system of the cell. It breaks down macromolecules.

What are lysosomes?

300

A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without itself undergoing any permanent chemical change

What is a catalyst?

300

The acceleration of an object due solely to gravity

What is free fall?

400

These three female engineers served a vital role in launching John Glenn into orbit. They were featured in the 2016 movie, Hidden Figures

Who are Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson?

400

This university is credited for the invention of Google. Hint: It is a world-renowned university, and they compete in D1 sports.

What is Stanford University? 

400

The chemical components that differ DNA from RNA

What are thymine and uracil?

400

True or False: Ammonium is always soluble. Hint: NH4+

What is true?

400

The area in which the mass is balanced/concentrated around

What is the center of mass?

500

She discovered short sequences of DNA that are synthesized during DNA replication and linked together to form a continuous strand, also known as Okazaki fragments.

Who is Tsuneko Okazaki?

500

When the internet was first invented, it was known as this.

What is ARPANET?

500

The number for the fertility replacement rate, the average number of children born per woman at which a population exactly replaces itself from one generation to the next, without migration

What is 2.1?

500

Alternating cations and anions from the gaseous ions coming together in a crystalline structure

What is a crystal lattice?

500

After collision, an object or both objects will change shape.

What is an inelastic collision?