Scientific Revolution Vocabulary Quiz

What was the Scientific Revolution?

• An explanation a scientist develops based on facts
• an approach of looking at the world in a logical, rational way
• The period of great advances in the sciences, roughly 1500-1700's
• A method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from these data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested

What is a theory?

• A method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from these data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested
• The period of great advances in the sciences, roughly 1500-1700's
• An explanation a scientist develops based on facts
• an approach of looking at the world in a logical, rational way

What is the scientific method?

• A method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from these data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested
• An explanation a scientist develops based on facts
• an approach of looking at the world in a logical, rational way
• The period of great advances in the sciences, roughly 1500-1700's

What is rationalism?

• The period of great advances in the sciences, roughly 1500-1700's
• A method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from these data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested
• an approach of looking at the world in a logical, rational way
• An explanation a scientist develops based on facts

What is the Geocentric Theory?

• a description of the universe, where the earth is at the center of all celestial bodies
• a philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
• a solution a scientist proposes to solve a problem.
• the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the Solar System.

What is the heliocentric model?

• the astronomical model in which the earth and planets revolve around the sun at the center of the solar system.
• a philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
• a solution a scientist proposes to solve a problem.
• a description of the universe, where the earth is at the center of all celestial bodies

What is alchemy?

• a description of the universe, where the earth is at the center of all celestial bodies
• the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the Solar System.
• A philosophy practiced in the middle ages and the Renaissance and concerned prinicipally with discovery methods for transmuting base metals into gold.
• a solution a scientist proposes to solve a problem.

What is a hypothesis

• A solution a scientist proposes to solve a problem.
• A philosophy practiced in the middle ages and the Renaissance and concerned prinicipally with discovery methods for transmuting base metals into gold.
• a description of the universe, where the earth is at the center of all celestial bodies
• the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the Solar System.

What is a telescope?

• an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure.
• A solution a scientist proposes to solve a problem.
• an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer.
• Newton's law of universal gravitation states that a particle attracts every other particle in the universe using a gravitational force.

What is a barometer?

• A solution a scientist proposes to solve a problem.
• Newton's law of universal gravitation states that a particle attracts every other particle in the universe using a gravitational force.
• an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer.
• an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure.