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1. He was able to explain why a rainbow appears 9. He began making observations of the heavens
in the sky. in the late 1500s. He was even able to describe
o a. Robert Grosseteste these orbits mathematically.
• b. Dietrich Von Frieberg o a. Galileo Galilei
o c. Roger Bacon • b. Johannes Kepler
o d. Thomas Bradwardine o c. Blaise Pascal
2. He had a strong belief that science could be o d. Robert Boyle
used to support the reality of Christianity. 10. His mathematical equations became known
o a. Robert Grosseteste as ____, and they became one of the most
o b. Dietrich Von Frieberg powerful arguments for the heliocentric system.
• c. Roger Bacon • a. Kepler’s Laws
o d. Thomas Bradwardine o b. Newton’s Laws
3. He was considered the first Reformer; he o c. Maxwell’s Equations
emphasized salvation by faith alone. o d. Newton’s Law on Gravitation
o a. Robert Grosseteste 11. The oval pattern where planets actually travel
o b. Dietrich Von Frieberg around the sun.
o c. Roger Bacon o a. Geocentric
• d. Thomas Bradwardine • b. Heliocentric
4. Using mathematics and experiments, he was o c. Copernican System
able to show that most of what Aristotle said o d. Ellipse
about motion was wrong. 12. Plural form of focus.
o a. Robert Grosseteste o a. Telescope
o b. Dietrich Von Frieberg o b. Microscope
o c. Roger Bacon • c. Foci
• d. Thomas Bradwardine o d. Quanta
5. His studies of the planets were revolutionary 13. The _____ of science is to develop general
because he was one of the first to break from laws that explain how the world around us works
Ptolemy’s geocentric view. and why things happen the way they do.
• a. Nicholas of Cusa o a. Practice
o b. Nicholas Copernicus o b. General
o c. Copernican System • c. Purpose
o d. Thomas Bradwardine o d. Essence
6. The sun is at the center of everything and 14. The_____ of science involves
assumed that the planets (including the earth) experimentation and observation.
traveled around the sun. • a. Practice
o a. Geocentric o b. General
• b. Heliocentric o c. Purpose
o c. Copernican System o d. Essence
o d. Ellipse
7. Another term for (#6). 15. Sometime around 2650 B.C., a man named
o a. Geocentric _____ was renowned for his knowledge of
o b. Heliocentric medicine.
• c. Copernican System • a. Imhotep
o d. Ellipse o b. Democritus
8. This system was named such (#7) in honor of o c. Archimedes
____. o d. Thales
o a. Nicholas of Cusa 16. Modern science tells us that certain bread
• b. Nicholas Copernicus molds produce _____, a chemical that kills germs
o c. Copernican System that infect wounds.
o d. Thomas Bradwardine • a. Penicillin
o b. Morphine
o c. Antibiotic
 o d. Aspirin o d. Democritus
17. Poppy seeds contain both ____ 26. He believed that all matter was like sand, that
o a. Penicillin is, made up of little individual particles that he
• b. Morphine and his teacher called atoms.
o c. Antibiotic o a. Imhotep
o d. Aspirin • b. Democritus
18. and ____, which are excellent pain-relieving o c. Archimedes
drugs still used today. o d. Thales
o a. Penicillin 27. He was the first to make a large-scale
o b. Morphine attempt at the classification of animals and
o c. Antibiotic plants.
• d. Codeine o a. Imhotep
19. An ancient form of paper made from a plant o b. Galilei
of the same name. o c. Archimedes
o a. Penicillin • d. Aristotle
o b. Morphine 28. This states that living organisms can be
o c. Clay tablet spontaneously formed from nonliving
• d. Papyrus substances.
20. Earlier, Egyptians, Sumerians, and other o a. Dark Ages
races wrote on ___ or smooth rocks. o b. Essence
o a. Penicillin o c. Industrial revolution
o b. Morphine o d. Natural selection
• c. Clay tablet Answer: Spontaneous Generation
o d. Papyrus 29. He realized that when an item is immersed in
21. As early as 1,000 years B.C., the Chinese water, it displaces the same amount of water as
were using ___ to aid themselves in their travels. the space that the item occupies in the water.
o a. Moon o a. Imhotep
o b. Sun o b. Democritus
o c. Sundial • c. Archimedes
• d. Compass o d. Thales
22. He studied the heavens and tried to develop 30. He assumed that the earth was at the center
a unifying theme that would explain the of the universe, and that the planets and stars
movement of the heavenly bodies (the planets orbited about the earth in a series of circles.
and stars). • a. Claudius Ptolemy
o a. Imhotep o b. Anaximander
o b. Democritus o c. Hans Lippershey
o c. Archimedes o d. John Dalton
• d. Thales 31. In this system, the earth sits at the center of
23. He believed that all life began in the sea, and the universe and does not move. The planets
at one time, humans were some sort of fish. travel around the earth in circles within circles.
o a. Claudius Ptolemy • a. Geocentric System
• b. Anaximander o b. Heliocentric System
o c. Hans Lippershey o c. Copernican System
o d. John Dalton o d. Kepler’s System
24. He believed that air was the most basic 32. An attempt to transform lead or other
substance in nature. inexpensive substance into gold.
o a. Claudius Ptolemy o a. Chemistry
• b. Anaximenes o b. Physics
o c. Leucippus • c. Alchemy
o d. Democritus o d. Biology
25. He built on the concepts of Anaximenes and 33. In a ____, one or more substances interact to
proposed that all matter is composed of little form one or more new substances.
units called “atoms”. o a. Physical reaction
• a. Leucippus • b. Chemical reaction
o b. Anaximenes o c. Redox reaction
o c. Alchemy o d. Combustion
34. The period in history where very little was o a. Dark Ages
learned. o b. Essence
• a. Dark Ages • c. Industrial revolution
o b. Essence o d. Natural selection
o c. Industrial revolution 44. Scientists thought that every type of creature
o d. Natural selection that exists today has existed throughout history.
35. These are patterns formed by stars. o a. Industrial revolution
o a. Solar system o b. Essence
o b. Galaxy o c. Natural selection
o c. Supernova • d. Immunity of species
• d. Constellation 45. Living organisms can adapt to changes in
36. The explosion of a star. their surroundings. Elimination of the unfit
o a. Nebula survival of the fittest.
• b. Supernova o a. Dark Ages
o c. Black Hole o b. Essence
o d. Galaxy o c. Industrial revolution
37. A cloud of dust and gas. • d. Natural selection
o a. Black Hole 46. Freud believed that the human mind was
• b. Nebula composed of three conflicting elements, except
o c. Supernova one.
o d. Galaxy o a. Id
38. The ____ of science is “why things happen • b. Super Id
the way they did”. o c. Ego
o a. Practice o d. Super Ego
o b. Purpose 47. Electricity and magnetism are both different
o c. Presence aspects of the same phenomenon.
• d. Essence o a. Electrostatics
39. He taught that the purpose of inquiry was not o b. Electrodynamics
to come up with great inventions, but instead to • c. Electromagnetism
learn the reasons behind the facts. o d. Magnetostatics
• a. Robert Grosseteste
o b. Dietrich Von Frieberg 48. Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It
o c. Roger Bacon can only change forms.
o d. Thomas Bradwardine o a. Law of Conservation of Mass
40. He (#39) is often called the father of the o b. Law of Conservation of Energy
____, because he was the first to thoroughly • c. Law of Conservation of Heat
explain and use it. o d. Law of Conservation of Motion
o a. Chemical reaction 49. He determined that, like matter, energy
• b. Scientific method cannot be created or destroyed.
o c. Scientific notation • a. James Joule
o d. Bohr model o b. Antoine Lavoisier
41. Matter cannot be created or destroyed – it o c. Isaac Newton
can only change forms. o d. Albert Einstein
• a. Law of Conservation of Mass 50. Energy exists in tiny packets.
o b. Law of Conservation of Energy o a. Photons
o c. Law of Conservation of Heat o b. Waves
o d. Law of Conservation of Motion o c. Foci
42. He is considered the founder of modern • d. Quanta
atomic theory.
o a. Claudius Ptolemy
o b. Anaximander
o c. Hans Lippershey
• d. John Dalton
43. Increased scientific knowledge led to the
invention of many devices that turned hours of
manual labor into just a few minutes of work.