Marie Curie 1
Where was Marie born?
Warsaw, Poland
What did Darwin's father want he to do for his career?
His father wanted him to be a medical doctor.
Name a famous scientist.
(answers will vary) Einstein
What school did Marie become a professor at after graduating?
The Sorbonne in France.
What did Darwin discover?
He discovered evolution, or how things change over time due to natural selection.
What was Marie's original name (when she lived in Poland)?
Manya Sklowdoska
Where was Darwin born?
He was born in Shrewsbury, England.
Who invented the lens needed for the telescope?
Galileo Galilei invented the lens needed to make a telescope.
What are the two elements Marie discovered?
What animal helped Darwin figure out evolution?
Birds, or finches, helped Darwin discover evolution.
What job did Marie have to help pay for her sister's education?
Marie was a governess.
What school did Darwin go to?
He went to Edinburgh University.
Who discovered that the planets orbit the sun and not the Earth?
Galileo Galilei discovered that the solar system is heliocentric, meaning that the planets orbit the sun, and the sun is in the middle.
What did Marie call the kind of energy she found in elements like radium?
She called it radioactivity.
What were the islands or archipelagos where Darwin did a lot of his research called?
The Galapagos Islands (Archipelagos).
What school did Marie go to before she could move to France and go to college?
She went to the Flying (Floating) University.
What was the name of the ship Darwin explored the world with?
The HMS Beagle.
Darwin was very interested in this subject. What subject studies plants?
Botany is the subject that studies plants.
What did Marie win for discovering radioactivity?
She won a Nobel Prize in Physics.
What was Darwin's passionate about?
He was passionate about plants, animals, and nature. He studied all three throughout his life.
How many (bachelors) degrees did Marie earn?
She earned two, one in physics and one in math.
What is the name of the book Darwin wrote?
Darwin wrote "On the Origin of Species."
Marie Curie had her doctoral degree in this subject. What subject studies the elements and how they can combine to make compounds?
Chemistry is the subject that studies elements and how they combine to make compounds.
She won the Nobel Prize for Physics and the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
What else besides living things did Darwin look at to better understand evolution?
Darwin looked at fossils to see how a species could change over long periods of time.