Scientific Revolution Quiz

Match each word with its meaning.

• reason is the main source for knowledge

• element

• changed how Europeans understood science

• scientific revolution

• a substance that cannot be broken down

• scientific method

• how to find information scientifically

• heliocentric

• a sun centered theory

• rationalism

Which early scientist theorized that the planets moved in elliptical orbits, or oval-like paths, around the sun?

• Johannes Kepler
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Galileo Galilei
• Isaac Newton

Who was the English thinker who established the three Laws of Motion?

• Sir Isaac Newton
• Charles Darwin
• Galileo Galilei
• Albert Einstein

Who was the English thinker who developed the scientific method?

• Isaac Newton
• Charles Darwin
• Thomas Hobbes
• Francis Bacon

Ptolemy’s geocentric, or Earth-centered, theory

• was accepted in Europe for more than 1,400 years.

• was proven to be true by Nicolaus Copernicus.

• stated that the sun is the center of the solar system.

• was dismissed by the great thinkers of his time.

As Europeans began their voyages of exploration in the 1400s,

• few tools were available to assist them.

• they returned to common-sense theories about exploration.

• they felt little need to pursue scientific ideas.

• better charts and maps were created.