Came up with the first reasonable biological classification system
Who is Aristotle?
100
Patella
What is the kneecap?
100
This type of tree loses all its leaves in the winter. Its tree rings are typically clearer.
What is a deciduous tree?
100
This invention allowed mass production of books to be made.
What is the movable type printing press?
200
Microscopic creatures that are not plants or animals. They are considered the simplest form of life on earth.
What is bacteria?
200
Known for his discovery of buoyant force. In water, water pushes force on objects equal to amount of water displaced. Yelled "Eureka" when he discovered this. Also figured out the use of a lever and fulcrum.
Who is Archimedes?
200
Nerves that come from the brain
What are cranial nerves?
200
All plants move towards stimuli or towards the sun, and this is known as
What is phototropism?
200
Nicholas of Cuza invented this to measure the water's depth by measuring the water pressure.
What is the bathometer?
300
These blood vessels carry blood away from the heart
What are arteries?
300
Teacher and author who figured out how a siphon works
Who is Hero of Alexandria?
300
The layer of tissue in the eye that detects light
What is the retina?
300
Opposite magnets attract while like magnets repel each other. This is known as
What is the Law of Magnetism?
300
Predicted that one day we would make telescopes, knew the power of bending light by his own experiments. Eyeglasses were invented just 18 years after he wrote about curved glass and how it affects light.
Who is Roger Bacon?
400
A liquid produced in the liver that aids in the digestion of fat
What is bile?
400
Famous for arguing against the idea that the earth is eternal. This goes against what the Bible teacher us. He used a scientific argument to prove that earth had a beginning.
Who is Philoponus?
400
The process by which living things are cut so that their various components can be studied.
what is vivisection?
400
Kinematics is studying the very act of motion while dynamics is studying what?
What is the cause of motion?
400
Improved upon compasses, thus making them easier to use.
Who is Peter or Petrus Peregrinus?
500
The tubes in the body that carry air to and from the lungs.
What are the bronchial tubes?
500
Emphasized the importance of knowing human anatomy
Who is Galen?
500
Hippocrates believed these four humors were important liquids in the body. This idea was wrong but his idea helped science to progress.
What is blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm?
500
Three basic arrangements Leonardo da Vinci discovered in leaves on branches
What are opposite, alternate, and whorled?
500
Invention that measures the humidity in the air, Cuza's finding