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The Scientific Revolution

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

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Class
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1.

All of the following are reasons why the Scientific Revolution occurred in Europe EXCEPT

a)

Goods brought from explored lands

b)

Renaissance scholarship

c)

The Catholic Churches support of new medicines and theories

d)

The closer role of craftsmen and scholars

2.

Which activity was central to the process of learning that was developed during the Scientific Revolution?

a)

constructing laboratories

b)

explaining the past

c)

observing the physical universe

d)

analyzing government documents

3.

Which of the following is a similarity between the work of scientists and philosophers associated with the Scientific Revolution and those associated with the Enlightenment?

a)

Focus on examinations of the natural laws that govern the universe

b)

Belief that only absolute monarchies could improve economic conditions

c)

Heavy reliance on medieval thinkers

d)

Extensive support from the Roman Catholic Church

4.

Who argued that humans are not the masters of nature?

a)

Maria Merian

b)

Mary Wollstonecraft

c)

Isaac Newton

d)

Margaret Cavendish

5.

Who created the Scientific Method?

a)

Andreas Vesalius

b)

Francis Bacon

c)

Johannes Kepler

d)

Galen

6.

Before the 1500's most scholars believed in the ______ Theory and that the earth was an ______ object located at the center of the universe.

a)

Geoconcentric, unattached

b)

Geocentric, immovable

c)

Heliocentric, immovable

d)

Heliocentric, inanimate

7.

Who accurately described the individual organs and general structure of the human body?

a)

Andreas Vesalius

b)

Francis Bacon

c)

Galileo Galilei

d)

Aristotle

8.

What was a direct result of the Scientific Revolution in Europe?

a)

The rise of the manorial system

b)

The application of reason to political thinking

c)

A gradual decline in the growth of cities

d)

An acceptance of the divine right theory

9.

Which of the following was developed by Isaac Newton?

a)

The Heliocentric Theory

b)

The Scientific Method

c)

The Theory of Scientific Rationalism

d)

The Theory of Universal Gravitation

10.

Who was the Italian astronomer who developed the telescope, which confirmed Copernicus' Heliocentric Theory?

a)

Francis Bacon

b)

Isaac Newton

c)

Galileo Galilei

d)

Andreas Vesalius

11.

Who argued that orbits of the planets were elliptical

a)

Johannes Kepler

b)

Isaac Newton

c)

Copernicus

d)

Ptolemy