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What was Galileo's first experiment?
How water moves in waves
How pendulums swing.
That everything is made of atoms.
That carbon dioxide causes global warming
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Who is considered the father of the Scientific Revolution?
Francis Bacon
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Galileo
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Which did Michelangelo do?
He brought the printing press from China to Europe.
Butcher, baker, candlestick maker
Sculptor, painter, architect, poet, engineer
Astronomer, mathematician, engineer
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Besides astronomy, what did Galileo study?
Religion, psychology, history, and linguistics
Geography, biology, medicine, and ethics
Math, physics, engineering, and philosophy
Painting, poetry, music, and philosophy
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What is humanism?
A philosophy that people need a reason to exist
The part of biology that shows people evolving.
A belief in the importance of being human
A focus on the stars and heaven.
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Where was Johannes Kepler from?
Germany
Rome
England
France
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What were most of Botticelli's paintings about?
Roman wars
Kings and queens
Greek myths and Christianity
Geometric shapes
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How could there be so many artists in the renaissance?
The government had art programs.
Rich people, patrons, supported them.
The church supported most artists.
They could sell art to make a living.
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What did Galileo prove about gravity?
Small objects fall more slowly than heavy objects.
Heavy and light objects fall together.
Everything has gravity based on how big it is.
A force one thousand times a weight will escape gravity.
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How did Leonardo write in his notebooks?
In Greek
He made drawings because he couldn't write.
Upside down and backward (mirror writing)
In Latin
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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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How did Johannes Gutenberg make the Chinese printing press better?
He made it small enough to move
It printed 16 pages at a time
Colored ink
Movable type
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What did Kepler show about orbits?
They are elliptical not round.
Planets move faster the farther they are from the sun.
Jupiter is traveling faster than any other planet.
The sun is the very center of the orbit.
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Who is the most famous of all the Renaissance men?
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Gallilei
Leonardo Da Vinci
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Besides the sun being at the center, what did Copernicus show about the planets?
Which was biggest
The distance each was from the sun
He discovered Neptune
How they move
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Where was Botticelli from?
Florence, Italy
Dresden, Germany
Barcelona, Spain
Rome, Italy
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What did people in renaissance paintings look like?
Long and thin
Angels
What artist thought gods looked like
Real people
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What did Michelangelo spend 4 years painting?
The Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
St. Peter's Cathedral
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What did Galileo discover about the moon?
It only reflects light.
It is brighter than the sun, but smaller.
It is made mostly of ice.
It causes the tides.
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Who was Erasmus?
A scientist, discovered light takes 8 minutes from the sun.
A General from France who attacked Italy.
A dutch philosopher who thought people were mostly good.
The king of Italy who started the renaissance.
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How did the Church react to what Galileo said about the earth?
He was asked to be a teacher to new priests.
They made him a saint.
They burned all his books.
They kept him under arrest the rest of his life.
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What book was translated into many languages?
The Bible
A book of Michelangelo's poems
Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks
Galileo's book about astronomy
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What are Leonardo's best known paintings?
Creation of Man and The Birth of Venus
The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
5 paintings on the ceiling of St. Peters church
Drawings in his notebooks
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How was Copernicus treated because of his discoveries.
He became a hero in Poland.
The church did not like it and kicked him out.
He was given a job at the University of Krakow.
He was put to death.
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What is one result of Gutenberg's printing press?
China stopped trading because he stole their idea.
More people learned to read because books were cheaper.
German became the language used by the church.
The church started selling The Bible to everyone
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Who did renaissance artists copy?
Greek artists
Roman artists
Egyptian artists
Chinese artists
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What did Kepler see that inspired him to study astronomy?
The perseid meteor shower
A solar eclipse
The moon turned red in a lunar eclipse
A double rainbow
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What does "renaissance" mean?
Back to the Greeks
Roman
Rebirth, bold new start
Science and art
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Ptolemy and Copernicus said the sun was at the center, What Galileo do?
Used math to prove it
Wrote a book about Ptolemy and Copernicus
Figured out how big the sun and earth were
Used the telescope to prove it
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What is the Inductive Method?
Discuss all your ideas with another scientist.
Write down everything you see and hear.
Use an electric current to make light
Look at many examples then make a conclusion
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Where did Leonardo keep his ideas and sketches?
Students wrote them down
In desk drawers
His secretary kept them
In notebooks
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Besides science, what was Francis Bacon important for?
He was Leonardo's neigbor.
He wrote 24 novels.
He was an important politician.
He was an artist.
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What did Kepler prove about the moon?
It was another planet once.
It caused the tides.
It is mostly ice.
It always faces the same direction.
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What did Copernicus say about the sun and planets?
They are closer than the other stars.
The sun is in the middle and the planets circle it.
They are all balls of fire.
They are too big to paint together.
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What are "David" and "The Pieta"?
Two of the paintings on the Sistine Chapel
Two moons by Jupiter
Two famous poems
Two of Michelangelo's sculptures
