10th Biology Midterm- Cycle II

Arguably the most important scientist of the 20th century.

• Thales

• Donald Trump

• Albert Einstein

• Steven Hawkins

He lived around 600 BCE, has been called the “father of science”

• Thales

• Donald Trump

• Albert Einstein

• Steven Hawkins

The Scientific Method is:

• a systematic and logical approach that scientists use to guide their research, which generally includes making observations, asking a question, forming a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, drawing a conclusion, and communicating results.

• the study of the composition of matter and the changes that matter undergoes.

• an explanation that always applies under the same circumstances; based on large volumes of evidence and no known exceptions.

The Scientific Method is:

• a systematic and logical approach that scientists use to guide their research, which generally includes making observations, asking a question, forming a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, drawing a conclusion, and communicating results.

• the study of the composition of matter and the changes that matter undergoes.

• an explanation that always applies under the same circumstances; based on large volumes of evidence and no known exceptions.

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this early scientist introduced the idea of empiricism around 350 BCE. It is a hallmark of modern science.

• Kepler

• Einstein

• Aristotle

• Thales

Copernicus’ ideas about the solar system were so influential that the scientific revolution is sometimes called the

This was the beginning of modern Western science.

• last year

• mid-1900s

• mid-2000s

• mid-1500s

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Around 1600, the Italian scientist Galileo greatly improved the

• Automobile

• telescope

• Wifi

• Microscope

Copernicus’ ideas about the solar system are considered to be the starting point of modern

• astronomy

• biology

• physics

• ecology

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Contributions to science that occured during the scientific revolution include

• kepler's law ofplanetary motion

• Einstein's general theory or relativity

• Newton's law of universal gravitation

• two of the above

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