Ch. 22 & Ch. 23 Study Guide Quiz

Who is considered the founder of modern chemistry and is best known for the discovery of a law that helps to explain characteristics of gases?

• Isaac Newton

• Robert Boyle

• Antoine Lavoisier

• Galileo Galilei

This English politician and writer had a passionate interest in science and argued for the adoption of new scientific techniques such as the experimental method (Empiricism).

• Francis Bacon

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire

Who was the scientist from Krakow, Poland who challenged the earth-centered view of the universe with his heliocentric theory?

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

• Isaac Newton

This scientist was forced to recant, or take back his findings in astronomy.

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

• Isaac Newton

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• Benjamin Franklin

• John Adams

A major reason for the colonists' victory over Britain was a stronger motivation to what?

• Gain independence

• Expand territory

• Establish trade

• Form alliances

Who invented the world's first vaccination for smallpox?

• Edward Jenner

• Louis Pasteur

• Robert Koch

• Alexander Fleming

This theory proposed that the sun was the center of the universe and the planets revolved around it.

• Geocentric theory

• Heliocentric theory

• Quantum theory

• Relativity theory

The heliocentric theory challenged this theory.

• Geocentric theory

• Quantum theory

• Relativity theory

• String theory

This was the social and political system in use in France in the 1770s that had been in place since the Middle Ages.

• Feudalism

• Monarchy

• The Old Regime

• The New Order