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Historical Perspectives on Science

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Credited for creating the Geocentric model

a)

Copernicus

b)

Galileo

c)

Ptolemy

d)

Socrates

2.

What states that "every object in the universe attracts every other object"?

a)

Law of Universal Gravitation

b)

Newton's First Law of Motion

c)

Myself

d)

Inertia & gravity

3.

How many postulates are there in the theory of relativity?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

4.

According to the book/presentation, Which person below had the biggest influence on Charles Darwin?

a)

Alfred Wagner

b)

Albert Einstein

c)

Issac Newton

d)

Charles Lyell

5.

who was the person that receives credit for the idea of continental drift.

a)

Charles Lyell

b)

Marie Tharp

c)

Charles Darwin

d)

Alfred Wagner

6.

Who developed cures for rabies and anthrax, and made milk safer to drink?

a)

Antoine Lavoisier

b)

Michael Faraday

c)

Dmitri Mendeleev

d)

Louis Pasteur

7.

Which French nobleman is widely considered the "father of modern chemistry"?

a)

Blaise Pascal

b)

Dmitri Mendeleev

c)

Antoine Lavoisier

d)

Louis Pasteur

8.
Takes two small nuclei and combines them into a larger nucleus
a)
fission
b)
fusion
9.

Which two scientist are credited for explaining the diversity of life

a)

Albert Einstein and Gregor Mendel

b)

Gregor Mendel and Charles Darwin

c)

Charles Darwin and Charles Lyell

d)

Albert Einstein and Chales Lyell

10.

Which of the following is NOT a reason on why the industrial revolution happened in Great Britain first?

a)

British inclination to apply scientific knowledge to practical affairs

b)

availability of raw materials, especially from the many parts of the British Empire

c)

the British empire had an overbearing population at the time of the industrial revolution

d)

the world's greatest merchant fleet, which gave the British access to additional raw materials (such as cotton and wood) and to huge markets for selling textiles