What Galileo said happens if you drop a ten pound ball and a one pound ball from a tower.
What is the fall at the same rate of speed.
100
To move around something.
What is to revolve?
100
A statement that explains why or how something happens.
What is a theory?
100
An educated guess based on what one already knows.
What is a hypothesis?
100
Newton discovered that white sunlight is actually a mixture of all of these.
What are colors?
200
What Galileo discovered by looking into space with a telescope?
What is that Copernicus was right -- the planets revolve around the sun.
200
All the planets and stars that exist in space.
What is the universe?
200
A three sided crystal that refracts light.
What is a prism?
200
The heart of the scientific method, this is carefully controlled.
What is an experiment?
200
Newton got his big idea about the force of attraction by watching an this fruit fall to earth.
What is an apple?
300
Reason the church said Galileo's theory caused a problem.
What is his theory challenged the Bible or his theory challenged Church teachings.
300
He shattered Ptolemy's 1400 year old theory in 1543 when he said the earth & other planets revolved around the sun.
Who is Copernicus?
300
To pull something towards oneself.
What is to attract?
300
An answer or decision based on step by step thinking.
What is a conclusion?
300
Name one scientist on whose work, Newton based his theory about why planets stay in orbit around the sun.
Who is Copernicus, Kepler or Galileo?
400
The court before which Galileo was tried for heresy.
What is the Roman Inquisition?
400
He used mathematics to prove Aristotle was wrong about planets going around in circles.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
400
The structure of a human or animal body.
What is anatomy?
400
Englishman who came up with the scientific method in 1620
Who is Francis Bacon?
400
A predictable pattern in nature.
What is a scientific law?
500
"With sincere heart and unpretended faith I reject and detest the aforesaid errors of Copernicus and also every other error contrary to the Holy Church and I swar that in the future I will never again say or assert anything that might cause a similar suspicion toward me."
-- Galileo
What Galileo was doing when he made this statement, the opposite of Luther's statement before a church court.
What is recanting?
500
The shape of planetary orbits.
What is an ellipse?
500
The kind of science that begins with and depends on careful experiments and accurate measurements.
What is experimental science?
500
Before the scientific method this Greek philosopher was thought to know it all.
Who is Aristotle?
500
Three powerful tools that Newton used to unlock nature's secrets.
What are mathematics, the scientific method and human reason?