Apologia General Science definitions: Module #1-2
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| Science | A branch of study dedicated to the accumulation and classification of observable facts in order to formulate general laws about the natural world
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| Papyrus | A primitive form of paper, made from a long-leafed plant of the same name
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| Spontaneous generation | The idea that living organisms can be spontaneously formed from non-living substances
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| Counter-example | An example that contradicts a scientific conclusion
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| Hypothesis | An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question
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| Theory | A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data
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| Scientific law | A theory that has been tested by and is consistent with generations of data
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| What did Thales study? | The heavens
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| Who was Anaximander's teacher? | Thales
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| What was Anaximander's field of study? | Life
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| Anaximenes's attempts to explain all things in nature being made of a single substance led to what important scientific discovery? | Atoms
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| Who is known as 'the father of atomic history'? | Leucippus
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| Who is known as 'the father of the life sciences'? | Aristotle
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| Archimedes did great work in what field? | Mathematics
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| 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
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| Dietrich Von Freiberg is often called what name? | The priest who solved the mystery of the rainbow
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| Blaise Pascal was the author of what 'argument'? | Pascal's wager
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| Robert Boyle was the founder of what field of science? | Modern chemistry
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| Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was the first to build what kind of scientific instrument? | Microscope
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| Charles Darwin wrote 'The Origin of Species' in what year? | 1859
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| James Clerk Maxwell is the founder of what field of science: | Modern physics
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| By whom was superconductivity discovered? | Heike Onnes
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