Famous Scientist

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Science
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5th Grade
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Hard
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Standards-aligned
Lisa Thompson
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15 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
I specialise in working with electricity. I am most known for designing the AC (alternating current electric system) which we still use today. My inventions have paved the way to many of today’s essential technology such as remote controls, radio, wireless technology, etc.
Nikola Tesla
Michael Faraday
Alexander Graham Bell
Marie Curie
Tags
NGSS.MS-ETS1-1
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Edwin Hubble
invented the telephone.
studied gravity.
is best known for discovering radioactivity which is used medically in x-rays.
showed that there are galaxies beyond our own, the Milky way.
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
This scientist is one of the earliest fossil hunters and was the first person to uncover a full Ichthyosaurus skeleton (a fossil of an ancient reptile).
Archimedes
Anders Celsius
Mary Anning
Rosalind Franklin
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS4-1
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Anders Celsius
created the World Wide Web.
created a temperature scale divided into small parts called degrees.
discovered the structure of DNA.
designed the AC (alternating current electric system).
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
My inventions made it possible for people to enjoy the benefits of electricity. My most famous invention is the lightbulb.
Alessandro Volta
Thomas Edison
Nikola Tesla
Albert Einstein
Tags
NGSS.HS-PS3-3
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Who is this guy?
Bill Nye
Stephen Hawking
John Logie Baird
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which scientist came up with binomial nomenclature?
Robert Whittaker
Salvino D'Armate
Aristotle
Carolus Linnaeus
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