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Vocabulary
Scientists
Scientific Method
Key Inventions
Misc.
100
This is an object that is fired or launched, such as a cannonball
What is projectile?
100
He developed the theory of the law of gravity.
Who is Newton?
100
The scientific method begins with this step.
What is stating a question or problem?
100
This is an instrument used for measuring temperature.
What is thermometer?
100
This is what the court forced Galileo to admit to.
What is they forced his to swear that the geocentric theory was true?
200
An instrument that uses lenses to make small objects appear larger.
What is a microscope?
200
The two philosophers who influenced the development of the scientific method.
Who are Bacon and Descartes?
200
This is an idea or assumption to be tested in an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
200
This scientist used mercury in his invention of the barometer.
Who is Evangelista Torricelli?
200
These are the two things that people used as sources of knowledge.
What is the bible and ancient philosophers?
300
An instrument used for measuring changes in the pressure of the atmosphere.
What is barometer?
300
He was a polish astronomer who the first to theorized that the Earth goes around the sun.
Who is Copernicus?
300
This is the last step of the scientific method.
What is the scientist analyzes the data to determine whether the hypothesis is correct?
300
He was likely the first person to invent the thermometer.
Who is Galileo?
300
This is why the Scientific Revolution was so important.
What is the Scientific Revolution marked a major shift in the way people thought about the natural world?
400
Belief in reason and logic as the primary source of knowledge.
What is rationalism?
400
He improved the telescope and was the first to see things in the night sky.
Who is Galileo?
400
The scientific method combines these three things.
What is logic, mathematics, and observation?
400
The US uses this measurement in degrees.
What is Fahrenheit?
400
The three things that Galileo was the first to see using his improved telescope.
What is the surface of the moon, the phases of Venus, and four moons of Jupiter?
500
A major shift in thinking between 1500 and 1700, in which modern science emerged as a new way of gaining knowledge about the natural world.
What is Scientific Revolution?
500
He improved on Copernicus's theory of heliocentric through observation and mathematics to describe the movements of the planets and the sun.
Who is Kepler?
500
This is the main advantage of the scientific method.
What is other scientists are able to repeat what another has done?
500
This is who invented the microscope.
Who are Dutch lens makers?
500
He was the first to see bacteria using this object.
Who is Antonie van Leeuwenhoek and the microscope?