The Scientific Revolution

The Scientific Revolution changed the way people

• printed books.

• produced goods.

• thought about nature.

• organized governments.

From what sources, besides the Bible, did scholars in the Middle Ages get their ideas about the world?

• personal observation

• the teachings of Aristotle

• questioning traditional ideas

• carefully designed experiments

Greek rationalism, rediscovered by Renaissance scholars, argued that

• personal observation was the only truth.

• logic could reveal basic truths.

• the word of the Bible was final.

• clever debaters could argue any point.

How did explorers encourage the growth of science?

• They created a need to study the stars.

• They argued against the power of the Catholic Church.

• They wrote exaggerated accounts of their travels.

• They showed that accepted beliefs could be wrong.

According to Ptolemy’s geocentric theory, Earth

• stayed in one fixed place.

• traveled around the moon.

• rotated on its axis every day.

• moved together with the planets.

How did Kepler add support for Copernicus’s theory?

• He published the theory in a book that many people read.

• He invented a device for seeing the night sky more accurately.

• He wrote mathematical laws that described how planets move.

• He showed that applying the theory would improve safety at sea.

Which form of technology allowed Galileo to make new discoveries?

• the compass

• the windmill

• the astrolabe

• the telescope

The Catholic Church objected to Galileo’s work because the Church taught that

• Earth was at the center of the universe.

• nobody except priests should study the heavens.

• non-religious teachings must be rejected without discussion.

• moons had been created for other planets as well as Earth.

How did an apple falling from a tree give Newton an idea?

• It hit him on the head.

• It drew his attention to gravity.

• It made him wonder how living things grow.

• It suggested that events occur in natural cycles.

In Newton’s formula, mass is a measure of the

• amount of matter in an object.

• speed at which an object travels.

• food a plant or animal must take in.

• shape of a planet's path around the sun.