Science and Mathematics Flashcards
Ancient instrument serving as a handheld model of the universe
What is an astrolabe?
Instrument used for measuring slope, elevation, or depression of an object with respect to gravity
What is a clinometer?
In 2012, scientist Adam Garde in Copenhagen discovered the world’s oldest meteorite impact site on this island, dated at 3 billion years old
What is Greenland?
A disease that causes nerve cells (neurons) in the brain to gradually break down or die
What is Parkinson’s?
The body of this 9,000-year-old Native American was accidently discovered in Washington by two spectators at a hydroplane race
Who is Kennewick Man?
Type of joint that allows for a circling movement, found in the thumb, thorax, middle ear, and the heel
What is a saddle joint?
Tissue that connects bone to bone
What is ligament?
Tissue that connects muscle to bone
What is tendon?
Long bone in the arm that runs from shoulder to elbow
What is the humerus?
Mathematician whose area of study is geometry
What is a geometer?
William Kingdon Clifford called him “the Copernicus of Geometry”
Who is Nikolai Lobachevsky?
Russian mathematician born December 1792 known for founding this type of geometry
What is non-Euclidean?
Ancient Greek mathematician considered “the father of geometry”
Who is Euclid?
1796 creator of the modern smallpox vaccine
Who is Edward Jenner?
At 2.5 million light years away, it’s the galaxy nearest to the milky way, named after the wife of Perseus
What is Andromeda?
3 categories of galaxies according to visual morphology
What is elliptical, irregular, and spiral?
Brightest star in Taurus constellation
What is aldebaran?
Outermost layer of the sun’s atmosphere
What is the corona?
Italian inventor and engineer credited as the inventor of the radio
Who is Guglielmo Marconi?
Italian inventor and engineer credited as the inventor of the radio
Who is Guglielmo Marconi?
“The Father of Open Heart Surgery”
Who is C. Walton Lillehei?
Pioneer of plastic surgery, around 600 BC
Who is Sushruta?
Successful American surgeon who was addicted to cocaine and morphine throughout his professional life, but managed to help found Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Mastectomy
Who is WIlliam Steward Halsted?
Procedure used to improve vision, essentially outdated today by LASIK (laser eye surgery), PRK (photorefractive keratectomy) and LASEK
What is radial keratotomy?
Fusion reactor which is used most often to turn grapes into raisins
What is the sun?
3 types of radiation, or radioactive decay, also the first three greek letters
What are alpha, beta, and gamma?
Particles that make up most of the atom’s mass along with protons
What are neutrons?
This common household appliance has a magnetron, a tube whose emissions vibrate molecules
What is a microwave?
Italian-born American that achieved fission in 1934 and didn’t know it
Who is Enrico Fermi?
