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Besides the sun being at the center, what did Copernicus show about the planets?
How they move
Which was biggest
The distance each was from the sun
He discovered Neptune
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What did people in renaissance paintings look like?
Long and thin
Real people
Angels
What artist thought gods looked like
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Who is the most famous of all the Renaissance men?
Leonardo Da Vinci
Johannes Kepler
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Galileo Gallilei
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What did Kepler prove about the moon?
It always faces the same direction.
It caused the tides.
It is mostly ice.
It was another planet once.
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What did Kepler show about orbits?
The sun is the very center of the orbit.
They are elliptical not round.
Jupiter is traveling faster than any other planet.
Planets move faster the farther they are from the sun.
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Where was Botticelli from?
Barcelona, Spain
Florence, Italy
Dresden, Germany
Rome, Italy
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What did Kepler see that inspired him to study astronomy?
A double rainbow
A solar eclipse
The perseid meteor shower
The moon turned red in a lunar eclipse
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Which did Michelangelo do?
He brought the printing press from China to Europe.
Sculptor, painter, architect, poet, engineer
Butcher, baker, candlestick maker
Astronomer, mathematician, engineer
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Who did renaissance artists copy?
Greek artists
Egyptian artists
Roman artists
Chinese artists
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What are "David" and "The Pieta"?
Two of Michelangelo's sculptures
Two of the paintings on the Sistine Chapel
Two moons by Jupiter
Two famous poems
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What is one result of Gutenberg's printing press?
More people learned to read because books were cheaper.
German became the language used by the church.
China stopped trading because he stole their idea.
The church started selling The Bible to everyone
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What does "renaissance" mean?
Science and art
Rebirth, bold new start
Roman
Back to the Greeks
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Besides science, what was Francis Bacon important for?
He was Leonardo's neigbor.
He was an important politician.
He was an artist.
He wrote 24 novels.
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What did Galileo discover about the moon?
It is brighter than the sun, but smaller.
It is made mostly of ice.
It only reflects light.
It causes the tides.
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How did the Church react to what Galileo said about the earth?
They kept him under arrest the rest of his life.
They burned all his books.
He was asked to be a teacher to new priests.
They made him a saint.
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What is humanism?
The part of biology that shows people evolving.
A philosophy that people need a reason to exist
A belief in the importance of being human
A focus on the stars and heaven.
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Ptolemy and Copernicus said the sun was at the center, What Galileo do?
Used the telescope to prove it
Wrote a book about Ptolemy and Copernicus
Figured out how big the sun and earth were
Used math to prove it
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What did Copernicus say about the sun and planets?
They are closer than the other stars.
They are too big to paint together.
The sun is in the middle and the planets circle it.
They are all balls of fire.
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How could there be so many artists in the renaissance?
Rich people, patrons, supported them.
They could sell art to make a living.
The government had art programs.
The church supported most artists.
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Where was Johannes Kepler from?
England
Rome
Germany
France
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Who was Erasmus?
A dutch philosopher who thought people were mostly good.
A scientist, discovered light takes 8 minutes from the sun.
The king of Italy who started the renaissance.
A General from France who attacked Italy.
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What did Michelangelo spend 4 years painting?
The Mona Lisa
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
The Last Supper
St. Peter's Cathedral
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What are Leonardo's best known paintings?
The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
Creation of Man and The Birth of Venus
Drawings in his notebooks
5 paintings on the ceiling of St. Peters church
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How did Leonardo write in his notebooks?
Upside down and backward (mirror writing)
He made drawings because he couldn't write.
In Greek
In Latin
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What is the Inductive Method?
Look at many examples then make a conclusion
Discuss all your ideas with another scientist.
Use an electric current to make light
Write down everything you see and hear.
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Where did Leonardo keep his ideas and sketches?
In desk drawers
Students wrote them down
His secretary kept them
In notebooks
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What happened because Botticelli may have loved a married woman?
He never got married.
He lived in a monastery.
He spent 30 years in prison.
He was killed in a sword fight.
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What did Galileo prove about gravity?
Heavy and light objects fall together.
Everything has gravity based on how big it is.
Small objects fall more slowly than heavy objects.
A force one thousand times a weight will escape gravity.
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How was Copernicus treated because of his discoveries.
He was put to death.
The church did not like it and kicked him out.
He was given a job at the University of Krakow.
He became a hero in Poland.
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What book was translated into many languages?
Galileo's book about astronomy
The Bible
Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks
A book of Michelangelo's poems
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Besides astronomy, what did Galileo study?
Painting, poetry, music, and philosophy
Religion, psychology, history, and linguistics
Geography, biology, medicine, and ethics
Math, physics, engineering, and philosophy
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How did Johannes Gutenberg make the Chinese printing press better?
Movable type
Colored ink
He made it small enough to move
It printed 16 pages at a time
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Who is considered the father of the Scientific Revolution?
Francis Bacon
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Galileo
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What was Galileo's first experiment?
How pendulums swing.
How water moves in waves
That everything is made of atoms.
That carbon dioxide causes global warming
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What were most of Botticelli's paintings about?
Roman wars
Geometric shapes
Greek myths and Christianity
Kings and queens
