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What is a Telescope?
It makes an object far away appear closer
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Who is Aristotle?
He is the person who invented the idea that earth is at the center of the universe
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What was Isaac Newtons most famous discovery?
Gravity
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What is a Thermometer?
Is a tool used to measure temperature.
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What is Galileo's full name?
It is Galileo Galilei
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Who was the man who thought of a geocentric system?
Aristotle is the man
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Who is Galileo?
He is the person who dropped the two balls of the leaning tower to prove his hypothesis right.
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What was Copernicus's and Kepler's view of the universe?
The heliocentric system, where sun is in the middle and the universe and planets orbited around it.
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What is a microscope?
It is a tool that makes small objects appear larger
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When was Francis Bacon born?
He was born on January 22, 1561
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What theory did Galileo prove correct?
Heliocentric
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Who is Isaac Newton?
The person who discovered gravity
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What did Galileo do to prove his theory that objects fall at the same rate?
He dropped one small ball and on big ball at the same height of the leaning tower. They landed at the same time
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What is a hypothesis?
It is an idea to be tested in an experiment
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Where was Copernicus from?
He was born in ToruĊ„, which is an ancient city in north Portland
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What is an orbit?
Is where on object follows around another object.
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Who is Francis Bacon?
The man who figured out the idea of the methods of science
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What did Galileo have to swear not to do in front of church?
He had to swear that the geocentric system was true and that he would never write about the Copernican theory ever again.
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What is a projectile?
It is an object fired or launched
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What Kepler's full name?
It is Johannes Kepler
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What is a barometer?
It is a tool used for measuring changes in the pressure of the atmosphere
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Who is Kepler?
He is the person who improved Copernicus's theory after studying detailed records of planets observations. After that he figured out that the orbit of the planets had to be ellipses and not in circles.
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What are the five methods of science that Francis Bacon made?
1. The scientist states a question or problem 2. The scientist forms a hypothesis about the problem 3. The scientist designs and conducts an experiment to test the hypothesis 4. The scientist measure the data produced by the experiment and records the results. 5. The scientist analyzes the data to determine whether the hypothesis is correct
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What is mass?
Is the amount of matter in an object
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Where was Isaac Newton from?
He was from Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth in England