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WorksheetsScientific Revolution Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Theory that the sun is the center of the universe.
a)
Heliocentric
b)
Geocentric
c)
Centric
d)
Ecentric
2.
Theory that the Earth is the center of the universe.
a)
Heliocentric
b)
Geocentric
c)
Centric
d)
Ecentric
3.
Enlightenment thinkers who applied the methods of science to improve society.
a)
Thinkers
b)
Scientists
c)
Philosophers
d)
Thoughters
4.
Rights that belong to all humans from birth.
a)
Right Laws
b)
Naughty Laws
c)
Real Laws
d)
Natural Laws
5.
Agreement by which people give up the state of nature for an organized society.
a)
Social Bond
b)
Social Structure
c)
Social Network
d)
Social Contract
6.
Process of discovery and confirmation of an idea, to figure out a problem.
a)
Methodic Method
b)
Scientific Plan
c)
Scientific Method
d)
Science Plan
7.
Movement that supported the ideas of human reason and logical thought.
a)
Lighting
b)
Enlightenment
c)
Enlights
d)
Treatment
8.
Movement that was based on experimentation and observation.
a)
Scientific Revolution
b)
Industrial Revolution
9.
Belief that people were naturally good, believed in a democracy and that the government should protect the rights of the people.
a)
John Locke
b)
James Riggs
c)
Henry VIII
d)
John Hobbes
10.
Belief that the powers of the government should be separated.
a)
Enlightenment
b)
Montesquieu
c)
Voltaire
d)
James Riggs
11.
Belief that people were basically bad and that people should give up their individual rights and should be ruled by an absolute monarch.
a)
Voltaire
b)
Montesquieu
c)
Thomas Hobbes
d)
John Hobbes
12.
Person who believed people had the right to freedom of speech.
a)
James Riggs
b)
Thomas Hobbes
c)
John Locke
d)
Voltaire
13.
Sir Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, and Johannes Kepler are all directly associated with the
a)
Industrial Revolution
b)
Agricultural Revolution
c)
English Revolution
d)
Scientifc Revolution
14.
Which pair of ideas were central to the Scientific Revolution?
a)
Social Stability and Economic Self-Sufficiency
b)
Scarcity and Independence
c)
Observation and Experimentation
d)
Social Stability and Economic Self-sufficiency
15.
Which individual is correctly paired with an individual who further developed his ideas?
a)
Pope Urban II Martin Luther
b)
Nicolaus Copernicus Galileo Galilei
c)
Hernando Cortez Simon Bolivar
d)
Louis XVI Maximilien Robespierre
16.
One way in which the contributions of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton are similar is that each …
a)
practiced observation and experimentation in his work
b)
challenged the heliocentric theory of the universe
c)
based his work on Enlightenment principles of social contract
d)
supported the work of the Inquisition
17.
Galileo Galilei and Sir Issac Newton are most closely associated with …
a)
conducting investigative experiments
b)
initiating religious reforms
c)
engaging in foreign conquests
d)
leading political revolutions
18.
One way in which Christopher Columbus, Galileo Galilei, and Charles Darwin are similar is that each …
a)
support for the Earth-centered theory of the universe
b)
challenges to the traditional teachings of the Catholic Church
c)
confirmation of Darwin’s theory of evolution
d)
a renewed interest in the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
19.
Seventeenth-century scholars Galileo Galilei and René Descartes faced serious challenges to their scientific theories because their ideas …
a)
were based on the Bible
b)
relied only on teachings from non-Christian cultures
c)
contradicted traditional medieval European beliefs
d)
were not supported by scientific investigations
20.
One scientific belief held by both René Descartes and Isaac Newton is that …
a)
difficult problems should be solved by reading religious texts
b)
the method by which discoveries are made is unimportant
c)
new theories should be made to fit existing traditional ideas
d)
reasoned thought is the way to discover truth
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