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100
The moon goes through many _____, ranging from a full moon to a new one.
What are phases?
100
A model of the Solar System with the Earth, not the Sun, at the center.
What is the geocentric theory?
100
This person’s most popular scientific discovery is often associated with apples
Who is Isaac Newton?
100
An invention from the Netherlands that makes distant objects appear closer.
What is the telescope?
100
The time during which the Scientific Revolution took place?
What is between the years 1550 and 1700?
200
Galileo helped predict the path of ______, like cannonballs.
What are projectiles?
200
A group of people who thought the Copernican theory to be dangerous and against their beliefs.
What is the Catholic Church?
200
This person presented a demonstration that proved that objects of different weight fell at the same speed.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
200
This invention led to the discovery of bacteria
What is the microscope?
200
This Greek’s teachings was a major source of the Europeans’ understanding of the world and the way it worked prior to the scientific revolution
Who is Aristotle?
300
The ________ _________ is composed of five basic steps used to draw and prove a conclusion to a question
What is the scientific method?
300
A law that states that all objects are attracted to each other.
What is the law of gravity?
300
An Englishman who helped develop the scientific method
Who is Francis Bacon?
300
Was invented by Evangelista Torricelli during 17th century and used to help predict weather nowadays.
What is the barometer?
300
A book that contained most of the Europeans' knowledge on the nature of the world prior to the scientific revolution?
What is the Bible?
400
The ______ was assigned the task of punishing those who pursued heretical ideas.
What is the Inquisition?
400
These were thought circular before Kepler proved them to be elliptical
What are planetary orbits?
400
This man’s work with planetary orbits helped prove the heliocentric theory
Who is Johannes Kepler?
400
This invention manipulated mercury and its tendency to rise or fall in situations related to heat
What is the thermometer?
400
The Greek who developed the geocentric theory?
Who is Ptolemy?
500
__________ is the belief that all one needed was reason and logic to uncover the truths of the world.
What is rationalism?
500
For the more religious of their time, this served as a means to better understanding the world they believed God had made.
What is science
500
The proposal of this man’s theory is often credited as having started the Scientific Revolution
Who is Nicolas Copernicus?
500
This event caused both Galileo to be called before the Inquisition and helped convert many to the heliocentric theory.
What is the publishing of Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems?
500
Newton's book Principia focused on the laws of gravity and _______
What is motion?