Question | Answer |
Science | A branch of study dedicated to the accumulation and classification of observable facts in order to formulate general laws about the natural world |
Papyrus | A primitive form of paper, made from a long-leafed plant of the same name |
Spontaneous generation | The idea that living organisms can be spontaneously formed from non-living substances |
Counter-example | An example that contradicts a scientific conclusion |
Hypothesis | An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question |
Theory | A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data |
Scientific law | A theory that has been tested by and is consistent with generations of data |
What did Thales study? | The heavens |
Who was Anaximander's teacher? | Thales |
What was Anaximander's field of study? | Life |
Anaximenes's attempts to explain all things in nature being made of a single substance led to what important scientific discovery? | Atoms |
Who is known as 'the father of atomic history'? | Leucippus |
Who is known as 'the father of the life sciences'? | Aristotle |
Archimedes did great work in what field? | Mathematics |
Robert Grosseteste was deeply committed to what idea? | That the secrets of the natural world could be learned by discovering the laws that God had set in motion |
Dietrich Von Freiberg is often called what name? | The priest who solved the mystery of the rainbow |
Blaise Pascal was the author of what 'argument'? | Pascal's wager |
Robert Boyle was the founder of what field of science? | Modern chemistry |
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was the first to build what kind of scientific instrument? | Microscope |
Charles Darwin wrote 'The Origin of Species' in what year? | 1859 |
James Clerk Maxwell is the founder of what field of science: | Modern physics |
By whom was superconductivity discovered? | Heike Onnes |