He came up with the idea that the sun is in the middle of the universe
Nicolaus Copernicus
100
An instrument designed to make distant objects appear closer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors it does just that. Generally used to look out into space.
Telescope
100
A person who is studying or has expert knowledge of one or more of the natural or physical sciences.
Scientist
100
In the history of science, there was a period when new ideas in physics, astronomy, biology, human anatomy, chemistry... really came along.
The Scientific Revolution
100
What is the first step of the Scientific Method?
Questioning
200
He improved the telescope, described the path of projectiles, an object that is fired or launched, found out that the moon’s surface is rough and uneven, he discovered 4 moons around Jupiter, and he also studied Venus and found out that like the moon Venus also had different phases which made him realized that since Venus had phases like the moon then it must be traveling around the sun.
Galileo Galilei
200
An instrument used for looking at very small objects, typically magnified several hundred times.
Microscope
200
Who was the man famous for stating that the universe had the Earth at the middle?
Ptolemy
200
A method of procedure that has described natural science since the 17th century. The steps for this method are,
ask a Question, research, make a hypothesis, experiment, and make a conclusion.
Scientific Method
200
What should a Scientist do with the results of an experiment?
Share Results
300
He discovered the laws of gravitation. His law of universal gravitation states that every particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. He is also the person that figured all of that out after an apple fell on his head.
Isaac Newton
300
The study of the human body. This looks not only at the Skeleton, but also the muscles and organs present
Human Anatomy
300
What is the idea that the Sun is at the center at the universe?
Heliocentric
300
The word for the idea that the earth is in the center of the universe.
Geocentric
300
Who were the two men who helped form the Scientific Method?
Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon
400
He improved Copernicus's theory, that the sun is in the center of the universe, and figured out that the orbits of the planets aren't actually circular but ellipse.
Johannes Kepler
400
An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure. It was invented by Evangelista Torricelli
Barometer
400
This guy is also known as the father of microbiology. In fact he was the one who invented the microscope.
Anton von Leeuwonhoek
400
A proposition made as a basis for reasoning, without any assumption of its truth. Guessing.
Hypothesis
400
What is a Hypotheses?
A prediction based on questioning
500
He published a book titled Principia or Principles that are widely respected by Physicists in 1687
Isaac Newton
500
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit created the thermometer and used what in it to tell the temperature?
Mercury
500
Trusting reason rather than feelings to decide one's beliefs or actions.
Rationalism
500
The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon... ex. The path that the planets take around the sun.
Orbits
500
What was Galileo's experiment that followed the Scientific Method?