Science Test 5 Review

What is the belief that only the natural world exists?

• Materialism

• Paganism

• Uniformitarianism

• Gradualism

Which event began the birth of modern science?

• Italian Renaissance

• Publication of Natural Theology

• Publication of Origin of Species

• Protestant Reformation

Which view of life teaches that living things have limited variation within the originally created species?

• Orchard view

• Tree view

• Species view

• Lawn view

What term refers to a person's foundational assumptions that he uses to understand the world around him?

• Worldview

• Mindset

• Outlook

• Attitude

What term refers to an originally created type of organism?

• Kind

• Family

• Species

• Type

What are the "useless" organs supposedly left over from earlier stages of evolutionary development?

• Pharyngeal organs

• Defunct organs

• Rudimentary organs

• Vestigial organs

What modern animal is Pakicetus a supposed ancestor of?

• Horse

• Human

• Whale

• Fruit fly

What is the foundation of modern science?

• Evolutionary philosophies

• Historic experimentation

• Biblical principles

• Scientific observation

What false idea says that the present is the key to the past?

• Spontaneous generation

• Materialism

• Uniformitarianism

• Punctuated equilibrium

What English physician discovered blood circulation?

• Charles Lyell

• William Harvey

• Georges Cuvier

• Konrad Gesner