General Science Module 1
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rhythmicpenguin on August 17, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Who was Imhotep? | An Egyptian doctor known for his knowledge in medicine. |
| Who was Thales? | One of Humanity's first real scientists |
| Who was Anaximander? | One of Humanity's first real scientists |
| Who was Anaximenes? | One of Humanity's first real scientists |
| Leucippus and his student, Democritus, are remembered for what idea? | Atoms |
| Who championed the idea of spontaneous generation? | Aristotle |
| Who came up with the first classification scheme for living creatures? | Aristotle |
| Who is considered to be the first modern scientist and why does he deserve that honor? | Grosseteste -- he was the first to thoroughly explain and use the scientific method. |
| Two great works were published in 1543. Who were the authors and what were the subjects? | Nicolaus Copernicus -- Astronomy Andreas Vesalius -- The Human Body |
| Although Galileo collected collected an enormous amount of data in support of the heliocentric system, he was forced to publicly reject it. Why? | The Roman Catholic Church made him because they believed in the geocentric view. |
| Galileo created what instrument type thing? | Telescope |
| Who was Sir Isaac Newton? name at least three of his accomplishments. | He was a great scientist who formulated a universal law of gravitation, developed calculus, and did a prism experiment that showed that white light is composed of many different colors of light. |
| What was Lavoisier's greatest contribution to science? | A book classifying all living creatures. |
| What is john dalton remembered for? | The Atomic Theory |
| What is Charles Darwin remembered for? | Evolution |
| What does "immutability of species" mean, and who showed that this notion is wrong? | That throughout history, each and every species stays the same. Darwin |
| What is Mendel remembered for? | Genetics |
| James Clerck Maxwell is known as the founder of modern_________ | Physics |
| What law did James Joule demonstrate to be true? | Energy cannot be created or destroyed. |
| Who first proposed the idea of quantum mechanics? | Max Planck |
| What is Niels Bohr remembered for? | The model and description of an atom. |
| Einstein was one of the founders of the quantum revolution. What are the two other ideas he is famous for? | Special Theory of Relativity and General Theory of Relativity |
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