Scientific Revolution

The sun being at the center of the universe is which scientific theory?

• Heliocentric

• Neocentric

• Geocentric

• Monotheistic

What "revolution" occurred in the 1500's and 1600's that was based on experimentation and observation?

• American

• French

• Scientific

• Renaissance

True or False?

Galileo discovered that all objects fall at the same speed and weight.

• False

• True

The scientific method is an approach developed during the scientific revolution, and has how many steps?

• 5

• 7

• 8

• 6

What astronomer claimed the earth was the center of the universe and not the sun?

• Copernicus

• Bacon

• Ptolemy

• Newton

Galileo developed what subject that is a method of mathematical analysis?

• Multiplication

• Physics

• Chemistry

• Calculus

What term means earth centered?

• geocentric

• heliocentric

• psychocentric

• hemicentric

Newton formulated the laws of motion that have which of the following factors?

• A body at rest stays at rest

• Acceleration is caused by force

• For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

• All of these

What scientist disagreed with Ptolemy and said the sun was the center of the universe,not the earth?

• Mendenhall

• Galileo

• Bacon

• Copernicus

Most scholars rejected Copernicus' theory because he said the earth rotated on its?

• anvil

• axis

• equator

• plane