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Chapter 8 Lesson 1 Quiz

Quiz by Hannah Tapp Thomas

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  • Q1

    The theory that the center of the universe is Earth and all other celestial bodies revolve around it. 

    universal law of gravitation

    heliocentric

    geocentric

    rationalism 

    120s
  • Q2

    An English philosopher who was critical of the idea that humans could be masters of nature through scientific knowledge. 

    Isaac Newton

    Antoine Lavoisier 

    Margaret Cavendish

    Maria Winkelmann 

    120s
  • Q3

    A 2nd century mathematician famous for the geocentric theory of the universe. 

    Ptolemy

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    Galileo Galilei 

    Galen 

    120s
  • Q4

    A mathematician who explained that planetary motion around the sun is elliptical, not circular. 

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    Johannes Kepler

    Galileo Galilei

    Isaac Newton 

    120s
  • Q5

    A 17th century mathematician who discovered the universal law of gravitation. 

    Isaac Newton 

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    Johannes Kepler

    Galileo Galilei

    120s
  • Q6

    A scientist who used his observations about liquids and pressure to develop the syringe and hydraulic press. 

    Isaac Newton

    Blaise Pascal

    Robert Boyle

    Antione Lavoisier

    120s
  • Q7

    A 2nd century physician who dissected animals to make conclusions about human anatomy and whose ideas prevailed until the Late Middle Ages. 

    Galen

    Ptolemy

    Andreas Vesalius

    Galilei

    120s
  • Q8

    An 18th century scientist considered the founder of modern chemistry because of his invention of a system of naming chemical elements. 

    Antoine Lavoisier 

    Isaac Newton

    Blaise Pascal

    Robert Boyle

    120s
  • Q9

    A German astronomer who married and assisted Germany's foremost astronomer and discovered a comet. 

    Galileo Galilei

    William Harvey

    Nicolaus Copernicus 

    Maria Winkelmann

    120s
  • Q10

    A 16th century mathematician who developed the heliocentric theory of the universe. 

    Ptolemy

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    Johannes Kepler

    Galileo Galilei

    120s
  • Q11

    A 16th/17th century mathematician who used a telescope to make advanced observations about the world and came under fire from the Catholic Church for subscribing to Copernican ideas about the universe. 

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    Johannes Kepler

    Galileo Galilei

    Isaac Newton 

    120s
  • Q12

    A 16th century scientist who proved that the heart, not the liver, is the starting point for blood circulation and that blood completes a circuit throughout the body. 

    Isaac Newton

    Galen

    Andreas Vesalius

    William Harvey

    120s
  • Q13

    The first scientist to perform controlled chemistry experimentation, and who developed a law describing how the volume of a gas changes with pressure. 

    Blaise Pascal

    Robert Boyle

    Antoine Lavoisier 

    Isaac Newton 

    120s
  • Q14

    Every object in the universe is attracted to every other body in the universe by a force called gravity. 

    Universal law of gravitation 

    Geocentric theory 

    Heliocentric theory

    Pascal's Law

    120s
  • Q15

    The belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge. 

    Philosophism

    Scientific method

    Inductive reasoning

    Rationalism

    120s

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