The Scientific Revolution

Question 1

The theory that Earth is the center of the solar system is called the

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Geocentric Theory

Question 2

What were Francis Bacon's beliefs on knowledge and learning?

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to gain knowledge you must rid your mind of false beliefs.

Question 3

Isaac Newton argued that all objects with mass are acted upon by a force called

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Gravity

Question 4

In the 1640s, Evangelista Torricelli invented the barometer, a tool that

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measures pressure changes in the atmosphere.

Question 5

How did the Age of Exploration lead people to question their understanding of the world?

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People began to question the teachings of classical thinkers, This period proved the world is larger than people thought., The discovery of the Americas showed that Ptolemy was wrong.

Question 6

Galileo also observed the planet Jupiter with his telescope. What did he see?

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4 moons orbiting the planet

Question 7

How did Newton explain the fact that the moon orbits the Earth?

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Earth and moon pull each other, but the earth's pull is >

Question 8

What is a hypothesis?

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The second step in the Scientific Method, An educated guess, Something that you test during an experiment

Question 9

Who is believed to have made the very first thermometer?

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Galileo

Question 10

Which of the following is the last step in the scientific method?

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analyzing the data to check if the hypothesis is correct

Question 11

What achievement did Johannes Kepler make in the early 1600s?

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He wrote mathematical laws on the movement of the planets., He said the planets travel in oval orbits around the sun.

Question 12

Newton's law of gravity states that all physical objects...

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have a force of attraction between them.

Question 13

How did Newton's theory of gravity support the Heliocentric Theory? It explained why...

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the moon travels around the earth, the planets travel in oval orbits around the sun

Question 14

According to Renaissance thinker Thomas Acquinas reason

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was an important tool for understanding the world., could be used to support Christian beliefs.

Question 15

How did the 4 moons Galileo saw orbiting Jupiter help to disprove the geocentric theory?

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The 4 moons proved that everything did not orbit the Earth.

Question 16

The heliocentric theory argues that the Earth...

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and other planets travel around the sun

Question 17

Before the Scientific Revolution what did Europeans rely on to understand nature?

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All of the above

Question 18

Newton's 1687 book, "Principia," presented his beliefs about

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his laws of gravity and motion

Question 19

Which of the following is the first step in the scientific method?

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Asking a question

Question 20

What did Galileo discover about Venus while using his telescope?

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Venus passes through phases

Question 21

Why did Galileo's support of the heliocentric theory get him into trouble with the Church?

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All of the above

Question 22

What is the Scientific Method?

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all of the above

Question 23

How many moons does Jupiter actually have?

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67

Question 24

Rene Descartes believed that to gain reliable knowledge, people should

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doubt statements until proven true by logic and/or math.

Question 25

The belief that logic and reason are the two main paths to knowledge known as...

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Rationalism

Question 26

When Galileo Galilei heard about the Dutch invention of the telescope, he decided to

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build his own telescope.

Question 27

What achievement did Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit make with thermometers?

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He made them more accurate.

Question 28

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek became the first person to see bacteria when he designed his own

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Microscope

Question 29

Which object will fall faster: a 5 pound bowling ball or 10 pound balling ball?

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Neither, They will both fall at the same rate.

Question 30

How did humanism influence the Scientific Revolution?

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Humanism encouraged people to question traditional knowledge, Humanists founded colleges and encouraged learning.

Question 31

Newton's law of gravity helped explain why...

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the moon orbits the Earth, moons orbit Jupiter, the planets orbit the sun

Question 32

How did the Catholic Church punish Galileo for his support of the heliocentric theory?

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He was forced to live on "house arrest" from 1633-1642.

Question 33

How did Galileo's observations of Venus support the heliocentric theory?

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Venus must be moving around the sun for it have phases.

Question 34

The Polish astronomer who first came up with the heliocentric theory in the 1500s was _______.

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Nicolaus Copernicus

Question 35

Why didn't Isaac Newton get into trouble with the Catholic Church for his theory of gravity?

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Newton lived in England and was an Anglican.

Question 36

Which period encouraged the growth of science during the Scientific Revolution?

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All of the Above

The Scientific Revolution

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The Scientific Revolution

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