Women in Science

What is the name of the first female Hispanic astronaut?

• Mae C. Jemison

• Ellen Ochoa

• Sally Ride

• Valentina Tereshkova

What is the name of the first Black woman to travel into space?

• Ellen Ochoa

• Valentina Tereshkova

• Sally Ride

• Mae C. Jemison

What is the name of the woman scientists who is known for her work with radioactivity and co-discovery of polonium and radium? She was the first woman to win a Nobel prize in science (in 1903 in physics). She won again in 1911 in chemistry.

• Madam C.J. Walker (1867–1919)

• Marie Curie (1887-1934)

• Katherine Johnson (1918–2020)

• Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958)

What is Jane Goodall, the primatologist, famous for?

• She was the first African American woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry.

• She helped NASA put an astronaut into orbit around Earth.

• She became the first American woman to fly into space.

• She studied chimpanzees and discovered in 1960 that they have the ability to make and use tools.

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Who is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records?

• Sara Boone

• Patricia Bath

• Oprah Winfrey

• Madam C. J. Walker

This woman has more than 100 patents on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technologies, the process by which we transmit sound as data over the internet.

• Marian Croak

• Shirley Ann Jackson

• Patricia Bath

• Katherine Johnson

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Who was Inge Lehman?

• She was a German astronomer who the first woman to discover a comet.

• She was a Danish seismologist who discovered Earth has a solid inner core.

• She made space history by becoming the first and the youngest woman to have flown in space.

• She discovered the first complete fossil of a dinosaur.

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Identify a personal quality that these women needed to have in order to overcome the obstacles faced while pursuing their careers.

• lazy

• persistent

• unmotivated

• arrogant

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What was one of the challenges that women faced while they pursued their careers?

• They were viewed as unintelligent.

• They were too educated.

• They didn't want to have children.

• They had a lot of money.

What year did the United States begin to recognize and celebrate women's achievements?

• 1940

• 1960

• 1980

• 2000