Scientific Discoveries

What did Newton think when the apple fell down?

• The apple was delicious.

• The Earth is a huge planet.

• Why things fall down?

Harry Hess found evidence of sea floor spreading.  Which fact listed below is evidence of sea floor spreading?

• the ancient rock on the ocean floor
• deep sea trenches
• the presence of islands
• the movement of Greenland

Who were the most important anceint astonomers (who recorded their observations on clay tablets.)

• Egyptians
• Mesopotamians
• Atlanteans
• The Flintstones

Who developed the idea that the planets go around the Earth?

• The Romans
• The Americans
• The English
• The Greeks

Who showed that the Greek models didn't work and suggested that the SUN is the center of the solar system?

• Copernicus
• Kepler
• Galileo
• Newton

Who first used a telescope to look at the night sky?

• Carl Sagan
• Edwin Hubble
• Galileo Galilae
• Bill Nye

Albert Einstein proposed...

• a heliocentric model.
• classical physics. (and calculus)
• that space-time curves. (General relativity)
• to his aunt.

What did Karl Jansky discover? (Using radio astronomy)

• A pulsar.
• An exo-planet (A planet in another solar system.)
• A black hole.
• A solar flare.

A European movement in the 16th (1500s) Century that encouraged the use of reason and scientific analysis to understand and explain the natural world was called...

• The Scientific Revolution

• The Thinking Revolution

• The Natural Revolution

• The Reason Revolution

One of the key discoveries of the Scientific Revolution was Heliocentric Universe, that stated the universe revolves around...

• The Sun

• The Earth

• The Moon

• Mars