Unit 9-11 Test Review

Question 1

Who created the mercury barometer, which measures atmospheric pressure and predicts weather?

Accepted Answer

Torricelli

Question 2

First landed in the West Indies and was greeted by the Taino people

Accepted Answer

Christopher Columbus

Question 3

Global trade of goods, ideas, plants, animals and disease that began with discovery of Americas

Accepted Answer

Columbian Exchange

Question 4

Which mesoamerican civilization did not have a system of writing?

Accepted Answer

Inca

Question 5

Capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco

Accepted Answer

Tenochtitlan

Question 6

Aztec emperor defeated and killed by the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes.

Accepted Answer

Moctezuma

Question 7

Discovered a route to India for Portugal by sea

Accepted Answer

Vasco de Gama

Question 8

Who is credited with spreading the smallpox inoculation from Turkey to Europe?

Accepted Answer

Wortley

Question 9

Prince of Portugal who wanted to control gold trade on western coast of Africa

Accepted Answer

Henry the Navigator

Question 10

The Aztec name for the late prehispanic inhabitants of the Gulf Coast region of Mexico.

Accepted Answer

Olmec

Question 11

Mesoamerican civilization that created the calendar

Accepted Answer

Maya

Question 12

Slave trade from east coast of Africa to America across the ocean

Accepted Answer

Middle Passage

Question 13

Which Spanish explorer conquered the Aztecs?

Accepted Answer

Hernan Cortes

Question 14

Who created the telescope in 1609?

Accepted Answer

Galileo

Question 15

A model of the solar system in which Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun

Accepted Answer

Heliocentric

Question 16

Who published a book accurately conveying human anatomy, knowledge gained through studying human corpses?

Accepted Answer

Andreas Vesalius

Question 17

Which Spanish explorer conquered the Incas?

Accepted Answer

Francisco Pizarro

Question 18

Why is it important that the scientific method is a structured step-by-step process?

Accepted Answer

Observations and discoveries are the result of steps that can be repeated.

Question 19

A model of the universe in which Earth is at the center of the revolving planets and stars

Accepted Answer

Geocentric

Question 20

Portuguese navigator who was the first to sail around the world

Accepted Answer

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 21

The image best represents which of the following ideas?

Accepted Answer

Triangular trade and mercantilism

Question 22

Who first studied the heart and discovered that it circulates blood to the rest of the body?

Accepted Answer

Harvey

Question 23

Who did not support the idea that the sun is at the center of the solar system?

Accepted Answer

Ptolemy

Question 24

Which of the following is not a reason for European exploration?

Accepted Answer

Government oppression at home

Question 25

Type of logic in which generalizations are based on a large number of specific observations

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Inductive reasoning

Question 26

Abandoned city high in the Andes mountains that showcases the architectural genius of the Inca

Accepted Answer

Machu Picchu

Question 27

Who created the microscope in 1590?

Accepted Answer

Janssen

Question 28

The phrase, "Truth is only achievable through a process of inquiry and observation," is characteristic of which group?

Accepted Answer

Scientific Revolution scientists

Question 29

Which thinker is credited with establishing the basic principles of physics, including natural laws that govern gravity?

Accepted Answer

Isaac Newton

Question 30

Which men are primarily given credit for the formation of the scientific method?

Accepted Answer

Bacon and Descartes

Question 31

Created a powerful empire in central Mexico

Accepted Answer

Aztec

Question 32

Series of steps followed to solve problems including observation and formulating a hypothesis

Accepted Answer

Scientific Method

Question 33

Sailed around the tip of Africa, est. Cape of Good Hope, and took control of Arab trade

Accepted Answer

Bartolomew Diaz

Question 34

This image best represents which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Increased trade with the New World

Question 35

Who created a smallpox vaccine using a strain of the virus found in cows?

Accepted Answer

Jenner

Question 36

An arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information.

Accepted Answer

Quipu

Question 37

Which model of the earth was supported by the Catholic Church during the Scientific Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Geocentric

Question 38

A nation’s wealth was measured in its gold and silver treasures

Accepted Answer

Mercantilism

Question 39

sailing completely around the world

Accepted Answer

Circumnavigation

Question 40

Force of attraction between objects that's due to their masses (discovered by Isaac Newton):

Accepted Answer

Gravity

Question 41

Which statement best describes Ferdinand Magellan?

Accepted Answer

The expedition he commanded circled the globe.

Question 42

Which of the following best describes Balboa’s exploration?

Accepted Answer

Search for a route to the Pacific

Question 43

Who created the system of measuring temperature that registers freezing at 0 degrees?

Accepted Answer

Celsius

Question 44

What radical new perspective did Copernicus’ drawing of the universe reveal?

Accepted Answer

heliocentric perspective

Question 45

Sacrificed llamas and guinea pigs

Accepted Answer

Inca

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