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WorksheetsScientific Revolution Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
What was the major shift in thinking between 1500 and 1700, in which modern science emerged as a new way of gaining knowledge about the natural world?
Reformation
Industrial Revolution
Scientific Revolution
Enlightenment
What was the first major source that guided most Europeans' thinking about the natural world during the Middle Ages?
The Bible
Rosetta Stone
Muslim scholars
Teachings of Aristotle
Who combined Aristotle's thinking with Christian faith and argued that reason could be used to support Christian beliefs?
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
Thomas Aquinas
Nicolaus Copernicus
What belief did the Renaissance thinkers adopt from the Greeks, which emphasized the use of reason and logical thought to discover basic truths about the world?
Skepticism
Rationalism
Empiricism
Nihilism
Who proposed the heliocentric theory, which stated that Earth and the other planets travel in orbits around the sun?
Johannes Kepler
Isaac Newton
Nicolaus Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
What did Johannes Kepler discover about the orbits of the planets, which expanded on Copernicus's theory?
They are perfect circles
They are ellipses
They are hyperbolas
They are parabolas
What did Galileo Galilei use mathematics to describe, which helped advance the understanding of motion?
The path of a projectile
The orbit of the moon
The phases of Venus
The movement of the planets
What did Galileo observe about the moon's surface, which contradicted the traditional view of the universe?
It was rough and uneven
It was covered in water
It was perfectly smooth
It was made of cheese
What did Galileo's discoveries about the phases of Venus indicate, which supported the heliocentric theory?
Venus was stationary
Venus was orbiting the moon
Venus was orbiting the sun
Venus was orbiting Earth
What did the Catholic Church see as wrong and dangerous, leading to a bitter conflict with Galileo?
The geocentric theory
The heliocentric theory
The orbit of the moon
The phases of Venus
What was Isaac Newton's greatest discovery, which explained the movement of both falling apples and heavenly bodies?
The law of gravity
The law of motion
The law of inertia
The law of relativity
What did Newton state in his law of gravity, which explained the force of attraction between all masses in the universe?
The strength of the force depends on the color of the objects
The strength of the force depends on the shape of the objects
The strength of the force depends on the temperature of the objects
The strength of the force depends on the distance between the objects
What did Francis Bacon outline as a method of scientific investigation, which depended on close observation?
Nihilism
Skepticism
Rationalism
Empiricism
What did Rene Descartes prize to gain knowledge that was certain, and saw the physical universe as obeying universal mathematical laws?
Nihilism and rejection
Skepticism and doubt
Logic and mathematics
Empiricism and observation
What did Antonie van Leeuwenhoek become the first person to see through his powerful microscopes?
Bacteria
Viruses
Protozoa
Fungi
