Hepner 7th Grade Scientific Revolution

According to Copernicus, the sun

• revolved around the earth

• was the biggest star

• was the center of the universe

• had many moons

Galileo was tried for heresy because he argued  

• That heaven did not exist
• That Earth revolved around the sun
• Against the law of gravity
• That the sun revolved around the Earth

During the Scientific Revolution the heliocentric view of the universe was first proposed by __.

• Ptolemy
• Francis Bacon
• Isaac Newton
• Nicolaus Copernicus

Natural philosophers based their scientific explanations on which of these?

• evidence

• observation and experimentation

• reasoning

• logic and mathematics

Which theory places the earth at the center of the universe?

• microscopic

• geocentric

• heliocentric

• Phythagorean

Geo means _____________.

• Sun

• Earth

• Moon

• Stars

Helio means _________.

• Earth

• Moon

• Sun

• Stars

This person was the first to use a telescope to observe objects in space.

• Galileo

• Aristotle

• Da Vinc

• Gutenberg

This astronomer proposed a heliocentric model of the universe.

• Da Vinci

• King Henry VIII

• Copernicus

• Galileo

Which scientist was the first to describe cells?

• Robert Hooke

• Galileo Galilei

• Sir Isaac Newton

• Robert Boyle