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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.

Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.

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

Aexploration led to exposure to new religions, new ways of thinking and new ideas 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 Dall of the other answers are correct

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

Athe Catholic Church Bthe ancient Mesopotamians Cthe internet Dthe Encyclopedia

3) One result of the Renaissance was

Athe development of the printing press 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 Da rediscovery of the knowledge of ancient Greece and Rome that had been preserved by the Muslims

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

AHarvey BBrahe CCopernicus DVesalius

5) The scientist who developed the telescope was

ABrahe BCopernicus CGalileo DKepler

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

ANewton BCopernicus CVesalius DLeeuwenhoek

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

AHarvey BVesalius CHooke DBoyle

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

AKepler BGalileo CHarvey DBrahe

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

ABrahe and Kepler BGalileo and Copernicus CBoyle and Hooke DDescartes and Bacon

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

Asolocentric Bgeocentric Cheliocentric Dmagnacentric

*select an answer for all questions

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