Key Figure
Key Inventions
Key Developments
The Scientific Method
Your Jeopardy!
100
Who is the first scientist to develop a heliocentric theory?
Nicolas Copernicus
100
What is the invention that makes objects appear larger than they are?
Microscope
100
What is the method that combines logic, mathematics and observation to find out how the natural world works?
Scientific Method
100
What is the first step in the scientific method?
State a question or problem?
100
What was the name of the church court in Rome that forced Galileo to stop writing about Copernican theory?
Inquisition
200
Who is the German scientist who made thermometers accurate by putting mercury into a glass tube and designed a new temperature scale?
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
200
What is the invention that measures changes in the pressure of the atmosphere?
Barometer
200
What is the name of the theory that puts the sun at the center of the universe?
Heliocentric
200
What is the second step of the scientific methods? or What is the assumption about the problem?
Hypothesis
200
Who was German scientist who improved Copernicus's theory by figuring out that the planets orbits were ellipses (ovals), not circles?
Johannes Kepler
300
Who is the scientist who discovered the law of gravity?
Isaac Newton
300
What is invention that measures temperature?
Thermometer
300
What is the name of the theory that puts the earth at the center of the universe?
Geocentric
300
What is the third step in the scientific method? or How does the scientist test the hypothesis?
Experiment
300
What is the name of the force of attraction between physical objects?
Gravity
400
Who wrote the "Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems" and was later forced to recant his heliocentric theory?
Galileo Galilei
400
What is the heaving liquid that is used in barometers and thermometers?
Mercury
400
What is name of the paths of the planets?
Orbits
400
What is information produced by the experiment? or What is the fourth step in the scientific method?
Data
400
What is the name of the period when people started to question a world view based on the Church's teachings?
Renaissance
500
Who were the philosophers who influenced the development of the Scientific Revolution?
Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes
500
What is the instrument that makes the stars and planets seem closer?
Telescope
500
What is the belief that reason (logical thought) could be used to discover basic truths about the world?
Rationalism
500
What does the scientist do to determine if the hypothesis is correct? or What is the fifth step of the scientific method?
Analysis
500
Who is the Dutch scientist who designed powerful microscopes and was the first person to see bacteria.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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