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Scientific Revolution

Test Description: A review of the scientists of the Scientific Revolution as well as some general information about the period.

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1) Which fo the following is one reason why the Age of Exploration helped bring about the Scientific Revolution

Aall of the other answers are correct Bexploration led to discoveries of places, things, and people that the Ancient Greeks never explained Cexploration created a demand for new technologies to improve sailing Dexploration led to exposure to new religions, new ways of thinking and new ideas

2) What was one source of knowledge about the world prior to the Scientific Revolution?

Athe internet Bthe Encyclopedia Cthe Catholic Church Dthe ancient Mesopotamians

3) One result of the Renaissance was

Aa rediscovery of the knowledge of ancient Greece and Rome that had been preserved by the Muslims Ba decrease in the power of the Catholic Church as people lost their faith in the Church as a representative of God's word Ca discovery of new places, people, and ideas in the world Dthe development of the printing press

4) The scientist who studied anatomy by hiring artists to draw dissected human bodies was

AHarvey BCopernicus CVesalius DBrahe

5) The scientist who developed the telescope was

AGalileo BCopernicus CBrahe DKepler

6) The scientist who developed the theories of gravity and motion was

ACopernicus BVesalius CNewton DLeeuwenhoek

7) The scientist who developed an early form of the microscope was

ABoyle BHooke CHarvey DVesalius

8) The scientist who used math to prove Copernicus's theory and who proved the planets move in an elliptical pattern was

AKepler BHarvey CGalileo DBrahe

9) The scientists credited with the development of the scientific method are

AGalileo and Copernicus BDescartes and Bacon CBrahe and Kepler DBoyle and Hooke

10) The belief that the sun is the center of the univers is called

Aheliocentric Bgeocentric Csolocentric Dmagnacentric

*select an answer for all questions

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