What connection did religious beliefs have on describing natural phenomena?

Who thought all matter is made up of earth, wind, water, and fire, which determine matter’s properties and behavior?

Rutherford experimented with a gold foil and a beam of alpha particles, which led him to propose the existence of the ___.

The modern atomic model, proposed initially by Bohr and then strengthened by Heisenberg and Schrödinger, is characterized by all the following, except ___.

When Thomson discovered the electron, using a cathode-ray tube, he compared the atom to which of the following?

Democritus and Leucippus adopted a word to describe particles they defined as indivisible. What word did they use?

If Anaxagoras were looking at a grain of sand, he would say its tiny seeds contained water, metal, cotton, paper, and even black holes! –but mostly ___.

Contrary to the scientific method developed recently, a group flourished in Greece and spent its time thinking about the natural world without proving its ideas. They were known as ___.

Niels Bohr proposed his planetary model after analyzing Rutherford's and considering it was not a sustainable theory. He suggested that the ___ were orbiting the nucleus just like the planets orbit the sun.