10-3 Quiz The Scientific Revolution

A sun-centered theory.

• rationalism

• heliocentric

• hypothesis

• scientific method

A new way of thinking that changed how Europeans understood science and searched for knowledge.

• Scientific Revolution

• Revolution Theory

• American Science

• Scientific Renaissance

The steps for an orderly search for knowledge

• scientific step process

• scientific method

• scientific theory

• theory of everything

A substance that cannot be broken down into simpler parts.

• oil

• element

• oxygen

• aluminum

Which early scientist theorized that the planets moved in elliptical orbits, or oval-like paths, around the sun?

• Galileo Galilei

• Isaac Newton

• Johannes Kepler

• Nicolaus Copernicus

Who was the English thinker who established the three Laws of Motion?

• Antoine Lavoisier

• Francis Bacon

• Isaac Newton

• Robert Boyle

Who was the English thinker who developed the scientific method?

• Francis Bacon

• Antoine Lavoisier

• Robert Boyle

• Isaac Newton

The belief that reason is the main source of knowledge.

• commonism

• senseism

• rationalism

• beleveism

Ptolemy’s geocentric, or Earth-centered, theory

• was dismissed by the great thinkers of his time.

• stated that the sun is the center of the solar system.

• was proven to be true by Nicolaus Copernicus.

• was accepted in Europe for more than 1,400 years.

As Europeans began their voyages of exploration in the 1400s,

• few tools were available to assist them.

• they returned to common-sense theories about exploration.

• they felt little need to pursue scientific ideas.

• better charts and maps were created.