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Who's that Scientist?
Name that Step: The Scientific Method
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What's the Invention?
And a Little Extra
100
A Polish churchman who published a book stating that the sun was the center of the universe.
Who is Copernicus?
100
What step of the scientific method involves making an "educated guess"?
What is the hypothesis?
100
To move around something.
What is "revolve?"
100
A three-sided object that can be seen through; seperates white light into colors
What is a prism?
100
A group of people with something in common.
What is a community?
200
Scientist who used a falling apple to explain his theory of gravity.
Who is Isaac Newton?
200
The first step of the scientific method is the _____________, or question.
What is "problem?"
200
The shape of an egg.
What is an "ellipse?"
200
Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz created this type of mathematics.
What is Calculus?
200
A controlled test of something in nature.
What is an experiment?
300
The Catholic Church punished this scientist for believing that the the sun was the center of the universe.
Who is Galileo?
300
Name the scientist who first worked out the steps of the scientific method.
Who is Francis Bacon?
300
To decide by using facts; to solve
What is "conclude?"
300
William Gilbert studied an object used to show direction.
What is a compass?
300
Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity is called the Universal Law of _____________.
What is Gravitation?
400
This scientist proved that lightning was a form of static electricity.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
400
The step where notes are taken; the scientist watches what happens.
What is observation?
400
The structure of a human or animal body
What is "anatomy?"
400
Anton van Leeuwenhoek created a lens for this object.
What are eyeglasses?
400
Before 1500, most scholars decided that something was true or false by reading the ____________ or ancient __________ and Roman texts.
What are "Bible" and "Greek"?
500
Who was William Harvey?
What is "a scientist who studied anatomy?"
500
Name the five steps of the scientific method, in order.
What is : problem, hypothesis, experiment, observation, conclusion?
500
The science that begins with and depends on careful experiments and measurements.
What is "experimental science?"
500
Andreas Vesalius discovered what about the human heart?
What is "that it had no bone?"