15-1 Practice Test

1. What discovery did Galen make?

• oxygen not carbon dioxide fill lungs
• blood not air fill arteries
• blood transfusions can be made

2. Who was the Greek scholar that tried to explain the universe in mathematical terms?

• Thomas Aquanis
• al-Amdulus
• Pythagoras

3. The name for an approach, in which people use reason or logic to understand the world.

• Rationalism
• Realism
• Geocentric

4. Aristotle's theory that he used to explain our solar system and the universe.

• Pythagorean
• Geocentric
• Solarcentric

5. In Aristotle's theory what was the center of the universe?

• Moon
• Milky Way
• Earth

6. Who expanded on Aristotle's ideas and claimed that the stars and moon move in small orbits on their own?

• Pythagoras
• Thomas Aquinas
• Ptolemy

7. How many years did Scientists accept the belief that the starts and moon move in small orbits?

• 1200
• 1400
• 2000

8. What is the name of the idea that things combine well with each other and form a whole?

• Harmony
• Anatomy
• Rationalism

9. This person studied shapes and invented the basis for geometry.

• Euclid
• Pythagoras
• Ptolemy

10. This is the study of the human body and how it works.

• Anatomy
• Medicine
• Dissect