Science: Order & Design - Chapter 5 Test

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

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

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

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NGSS.HS-LS4-4

What is the foundation of modern science?

• evolutionary philosophies

• historic experimentation

• biblical principles

• scientific observation

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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