6.7 "What is at the Center of the Universe?" CKLA 5th Grade

to disagree with and go against a statement or action

• theory

• contradict

• contemporary

• speculation

an educated guess about something; not proven beyond doubt

• speculation

• condemn

• theory

• contemporary

an explanation for why something happens based on evidence

• speculation

• contradict

• theory

• condemn

to say in a stron or definite way that something is wrong or bad

• speculation

• contradict

• theory

• condemn

a person living in the same time period and/or who is the same age as another person

• contemporary

• speculation

• condemn

• theory

Church scholars __________ Galileo for his scientific beliefs.

• contradicted

• theory

• condemned

• speculated

Most of Kepler's __________ had not changed their thinking which is why Kepler was so excited when he learned of the discoveries of Galileo.

• contradict

• speculation

• contemporaries

• theories

Conpernicus feared what would happen if he __________ the Church's beliefs about the nature of the universe and the earth's place in it.

• theories

• contemporaries

• contradicted

• condemned

Kepler formulated __________ about the different ways planets orbit the sun.

• contemporaries

• contradicted

• speculation

• theories

The pope gave Galileo permission to write a book--as long as he treated the ideas of Copernicus as __________ , not truth.

• speculation

• contradicts

• condemns

• theories