What did Thales believe about water?

everything comes out of water and the earth floats on water

How did Thales aim to explain natural phenomena?

rational hypotheses that referenced natural processes

What did Thales attempt to explain?

natural phenomena without mythology

Thales believed what to be true?

everything is made out of the same things

What was his theory regarding earthquakes?

earthquakes occur when the earth is rocked by waves

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Thales was the first known greek...
philosopher
mathematician
All of the above
scientist
2
He died at what age due to heat stroke?
67
53
78
73
3
define hylozoist
life exists on other planets
matter is alive
Pluto is not a planet
The sun is a planet
4
What did Thales believe about water?
the speed of waves changes the orbit of the planets
everything comes out of water and the earth floats on water
the moon is made out of water
earth has an underground ocean
5
Who did he teach that turned into the first Greek philosopher to develop a cosmology
Anaximander
Eratosthenes
Socrates
Plato
6
What was Thales interested in?
Everything
The ocean
Space
Physics
7
Where was Thales born in 620 BC?
Miletus Turkey
Rome, Italy
Abydos, Egypt
Mesopotamia
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he was acclaimed for predicting...
The eclipse of the sun
The apocalypse
The theory of a heliocentric universe
The theory of a geocentric Universe
9
How did Thales aim to explain natural phenomena?
by studying the laws of quantum mechanics
by reading the bible
through understanding the theory of relativity
rational hypotheses that referenced natural processes
10
What did Thales attempt to explain?
the earth’s underground ocean
natural phenomena without mythology
life on other planets
why lava comes out of volcanoes
11
Thales provided a number of explanations about what that usually involved supernatural entities
the ocean
the weather
aliens
cosmological events
12
What two religions influenced Thales?
Confucianism and Islamism
Judaism and Christianity
Babylonians and Chaldeans
Paganism and Buddhism
13
Thales believed what to be true?
everything is made out of the same things
the sun is a god
pluto is not a planet
The earth revolves around the moon
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Thales was a major source of knowledge for which famous Astronomer?
Kepler
Aristotle
Ptolemy
Copernicus
15
What was his theory regarding earthquakes?
earthquakes occur when god is angry
volcanoes are erupting
the earth shakes when the weather changes
earthquakes occur when the earth is rocked by waves
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Thales discovered how to measure what?
the earth
a roman temple
the ocean
an egyptian pyramid

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