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Scientist Spotlight

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  • Jane Goodall is best known for working with these animals...?
    Apes
  •  15
  • George Washington Carver is known for finding many uses for this plant.
    peanut
  •  15
  • (Supposedly) Isaac Newton thought of this force while sitting under an apple tree.
    gravity
  •  10
  • Sally Ride was the first American woman to do what?
    go to outer space (become an astronaut)
  •  15
  • Nikola Tesla was a proponent of alternating current, which is a form of ___________
    electricity
  •  10
  • Name one invention Thomas Edison is credited with "inventing"
    lightbulb, phongraph, film, movie camera, etc
  •  15
  • True or False: Benjamin Franklin was a president of the United States
    FALSE
  •  10
  • Grace Hopper worked with computers and was part of that first generation of machine language programmers aka
    coders
  •  15
  • Copernicus went against the common thought of the time and said the _____ was the center of the solar system.
    sun
  •  15
  • What is the name of this Leonardo Da Vinci painting?
    Mona Lisa
  •  15
  • WANGARI MAATHAI helped improve Kenya in many ways, including planting more than 50 million of these.
    trees
  •  15
  • True or False: Women have always been welcomed at higher education universities and labs.
    FALSE
  •  10
  • Ada Lovelace was one of the first __________ programmers.
    Computer
  •  10
  • Charles Darwin popularized the phrase "________ of the fittest"
    Survival
  •  10
  • Marie Curie discovered a number of ________, like Polonium and Radium.
    elements
  •  10
  • Alan Turing created a machine that helped solve codes and win which war?
    World War II
  •  15