Marie Curie discovered a number of ________, like Polonium and Radium.
elements
George Washington Carver is known for finding many uses for this plant.
peanut
Charles Darwin popularized the phrase "________ of the fittest"
Survival
Copernicus went against the common thought of the time and said the _____ was the center of the solar system.
sun
Galileo built a _______ to help him make discoveries of planets far away.
telescope
Jacques Cousteau was a pioneer of ____________, allowing him to learn and share about marine habitats.
SCUBA, underwater photography, etc.
Grace Hopper worked with computers and was part of that first generation of machine language programmers aka
coders
(Supposedly) Isaac Newton thought of this force while sitting under an apple tree.
gravity
Name one invention Thomas Edison is credited with "inventing"
lightbulb, phongraph, film, movie camera, etc
Rachel Carson was a scientist who focused on how __________ like DDT affected the environment and animals living in it.
pesticides
Jane Goodall is best known for working with these animals...?
Apes
True or False: Benjamin Franklin was a president of the United States
FALSE
Alan Turing created a machine that helped solve codes and win which war?
World War II
Nikola Tesla was a proponent of alternating current, which is a form of ___________
electricity
What is the name of this Leonardo Da Vinci painting?
Mona Lisa
True or False: Women have always been welcomed at higher education universities and labs.
FALSE
Ada Lovelace was one of the first __________ programmers.
Computer
Alice Ball made many gains in understanding and treating the disease causing _________.
leprosy
WANGARI MAATHAI helped improve Kenya in many ways, including planting more than 50 million of these.
trees
Sally Ride was the first American woman to do what?
go to outer space (become an astronaut)