These are the five basic, sequential steps of the scientific method.
What are ask, hypothesize, experiment, analyze, conclude?
100
This is a procedure for producing a predicted outcome.
What is an experiment?
100
Agriculture facilitated the dawn of this development in human culture, when people began specializing in different vocations and living in cities.
What is civilization?
100
The Renaissance, which originated in 14th century Italy and spread throughout Europe, arose from this impetus.
What is regaining the cultural achievements of ancient Greece and Rome?
100
Isacc Newton lent mathematical characterization to these two fields of physical science.
What are the laws of motion and optics?
200
Any factor in an experiment that can be changed is called this.
What is a variable?
200
This is a changeable factor in an experiment that influences the outcomes of other experimental factors.
What is an independent variable?
200
This was the the earliest form of written language.
What was cuneiform?
200
This invention allowed easy and inexpensive exchange of information.
What is the printing press?
200
A term meaning to think coherently and logically when drawing conclusions from facts.
What is reason?
300
An educated guess that must be testable is called this.
What is a hypothesis?
300
This is an experimental trial in which the influence of the independent variable is eliminated.
What is an experimental control?
300
Smiths began forging this metal in the 11th century BC, givinig rise to this age.
What is Iron?
300
These two astronomers, one a Pole and one an Italian, proposed a heliocentric arrangement of the planets, where planets orbited the sun rather than the earth.
Who were Nicolas Copernicus and Galileo Gallilei?
300
Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist who developed a system for doing this to living things.
What is classifying?
400
A detailed examination of experimental data for response trends is known as this.
What is analysis?
400
This is a a factor in an experiment that is influenced by other changeable experimental factors.
What is a dependent variable?
400
The fall of the Roman empire to German barbarians occurred in this century, AD, resulting in the loss of much of cultural achievement throughout Europe, and ushering in the Dark Ages.
What is the 5th century AD?
400
Any of these three categories of cultural development were important during the Renaissance.
What are exploration and trade, progress in arts and sciences, reforms in politics and religion, or increased size of cities?
400
Gabriel Fahrenheit invented this in 1714.
What is the mercury thermometer?
500
A best explanation of a phenomenon that is developed by consideration of the facts upon which the explanation is based is called this.
What is a theory?
500
These are the recorded measurements of experimental results.
What are data?
500
These are four are among the many Greek thinkers living during the Golden Age of Greece.
Who are Pythagoras, Leucippus, Socrates, Aristotle, Archimedes, or Euclid?
500
This book by Isacc Newton, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, or the Mathematical Principals of Natural Philosophy, brought about this cultural age, also known as the Enlightenment, or the Scientific Revolution.
What is Age of Reason?
500
Velocipedes, which began appearing in Paris in 1779, are also called these.