Science Trivia

A scientist who studies mosses is a

• bryologist.

• zoologist.

• paleontologist.

An entomologist is a scientist who studies

• morphology.

• insects.

• birds.

A scientist who studies weather

• precipitation

• meteorologist

• evaporation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

A scientist who studies insects is a(n)

• hematologist.

• entomologist.

• herpetologist.

A scientist who studies fish is a(n)

• ichthyologist.

• herpetologist.

• ornithologist.

The scientist who first discovered electrons was               .

• Ernest Rutherford

• Joseph John “J. J.” Thomson

• Democritus

Scientists who measure earthquakes are called

• seismometers.

• seismologists.

• seismic scientists.

Who is the first scientist to use a refracting telescope?

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

• Johannes Keppler

What type of scientist who reads a seismogram?

• seismolographist.

• geologist.

• seismologist.

Who was the first scientist to propose the theory of continental drift?

• Alfred Lothar Wegener

• Glomar

• Arthur Holmes

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5