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Gen. Science Mod #1
Apologia General Science Modual 1
| 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 |
| Ancient Egyptians | Trial and error |
| Thales | Explained movement of stars and planets |
| Anaximander | Tried to explain origin of human life |
| Anaximenes | Believed air was the most basic substance in nature |
| Lucippus | Proposed all matter of atoms |
| Democritus | All things are made of atoms which are in constant motion |
| Aristotle | Father of life science. First to make a large scale attempt at the classification of animals and plants |
| Ptolemy | He believed the earth was at the center of the universe |
| Robert Grossetestes | Considered the father of scientific method |
| Roger Bacon | Student of Grossetestes. He believed the more man knew about science, the more man knew about God |
| Galileo Galilei | Said he "invented" the telescope, even though he did not. Recanted Heliocentric belief to Roman Catholic Church |
| Nicholas Copernicus | Heliocentric System |
| Johannes Kepler | Compiled more evidence for Heliocentric system |
| Sir Isaac Newton | Greatest scientist in the history of the world, he formulated a universal law of gravitation and developed the mathematical law of calculus; this person said "Science = Math!" |
| Robert Boyle | Founder of modern chemistry |
| Antoni Leeuwenhoek | Built the first microscope of life forms such as bacteria |
| Carolus Linnaeus | Created modern system of classification |
| Antoine Laurent Laviosier | First to analyze chemical reactions in a systematic way. Law of mass conservation |
| John Dalton | Founder of modern atomic theory |
| Charles Darwin | Wrote "The origin of the species" Proposed theory of evolution |
| Lewis Pasteur | Developed process called pasteurization. Destroyed idea of Spontaneous Generation |
| Gregor Mendel | Studied modern genetics but gave up scientific study because of political struggles between government and church |
| James Clerk Maxwell | Founder of modern physics |
| Imhotep | Ancient Egyptian doctor who was renouned for his knowledge of medicine |
| Law of Mass Conservation | Matter cannot be created or destroyed; it can only change form |
| Atom | Basic unit of matter |
| Andreas Vesalius | A doctor who published a book in 1543 that tried to show all of the details of the human body |
| Nicholaus Copernicus | Wrote a book in 1543 that said the earth and nearby planets rotated around the sun, which is in the center |
| Supernova | An exploding star |
| Nebula | A cloud of dust and gas in space that is the remains of a supernova |
| Encyclopedia | Large volume of scientific observations and speculations |
| Dark Ages | Time period after the fall of the Roman Empire when the fee exchange of ideas and scientific progress slowed throughout Europe |
| Alchemy | The belief that lead (or other inexpensive substances) could be turned into gold (or other prcious substances) |
| Spontaneous Generation | The idea that living organisms can be spontaneously fromed from non-living substances |
| Geocentric System | The view that the stars and planets rotate around the earth, often called the Ptolemaic System |
| Archimedes | Lived 100 years after Aristotle; one of the first scientists to demonstrate how closely mathematics and science are linked |
| Density | How tightly atoms are packed in a substance |
| Chemical Reaction | When one or more substances interact to form one or more new substances |
| Albert Einstein | Formulated the special theory of relativity (E=mc^2) and the general theory of relativity |
| Quanta | Theory that energy exists in small packets |
| Max Planck | Scientist who proposed the idea of quanta, the basis of Quantum Mechanics |
| Niels Bohr | Developed a model of the atom |
| Special Theory of Relativity | Albert Einstein's theory that matter is really just another form of energy, described by the formula E=mc^2 |
| General Theory of Relativity | The second of Einstein's theories of relativity; it describes the effects of gravity on space and time |
| Sir Charles Lyell | Studied geology to help define how old the earth was |
| First Law of Thermodynamics | Matter cannot be created or destroyed but can only change forms; based on the work of James Joule |
| Michael Farady | The "electrical giant", this scientist did experiments on electricity and developed the concept that electricity and magnetism are different aspects of the same process (electromagnetism) |
| Louis Pasteur | Made great advances in the study of bacteria and other living organisms, and developed a process to keep wine from souring |
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