Decathlon Individual Science Introduction

Since early scientists relied on thought and argument rather than empirical proof, early thinkers were unable to make important scientific contributions to science.

• True

• False

Halley’s comet was first seen in _________ in 240 BCE.

• China

• India

• Egypt

• Greece

__________ explained eclipses and drew up an extensive catalog of stars around 540 BCE.

• Zhang Heng

• Thales of Miletus

• Pythagoras

• Anaximander

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The library of the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad was known as

• The Library at Alexandria

• The House of Wisdom

• The Louvre

• House of Books

This Islamic mathematician’s works included the topics of astronomy, algebra, and trigonometry.

• Kepler

• Al-khwarizmi

• Ibn Sina

Science is never finished.

• True

• False

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In 1590 Galileo Galilei disproved ________________’s theories of falling bodies.

• Aristotle

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

• Kepler

The theory that objects fall at the same finite speed regardless of mass was this scientist’s theory.

• Newton

• Aristotle

• Copernicus

• Galileo Galilei

______________ developed a heliocentric theory of the universe, meaning that the sun is at the center of the universe and the earth revolves around the sun.

• Copernicus

• Ptolemy

• Aristotle

• Galileo

What scientist would you associate with black holes?

• Stephen Hawking

• Albert Einstein

• Isaac Newton

• Galileo Galilei