Scientific Revolution Vocabulary and Content Quiz

According to Copernicus, the sun  

• Revolved around the earth
• Was the center of the Universe
• Was the biggest star
•  Had many moons

What was Isaac Newton’s biggest contribution to the scientific revolution?  

• Laws of Gravity
• Heliocentric theory
• Geocentric theory 
• Scientific Method

What did Kepler add to Copernicus’ heliocentric theory?  

• That Jupiter had four moons
• That the planets revolved around the earth 
• That the sun was the biggest star
• That the planets move in an ellipses around the sun

What did Galileo Improve?

• The astrolabe
• the stars
• The Telescope
• cat food.

What did the geocentric theory state?

• The sun was at the center of the universe
• The earth was at the center of the universe

What is the heliocentric theory?

• There is no sun
• The sun is smaller than the Earth
• The sun is the center of the universe
• The Earth in the center of the universe

Bacon, Galileo, and Newton promoted the idea that knowledge should be based on experimentation & ________.

• observation
• guessing
• research
• what your friends say

Which theory does this picture depict.

• Heliocentric

• Geocentric

• Solar

• Moon

Which theory does this picture depict.

• Heliocentric

• Geocentric

• Solar

• Moon

The _______ helped scientist to magnify an object and to take a closer look at it.

• barometer

• mircrowave

• microscope

• telescope