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GS module 1
apolgia, exploring creation with general science
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Science | Accumulating and classifying observable facts |
| Imhotep | an ancient man renowned for his knowledge of medicine |
| Poppy | A flower |
| Poppy seeds | contain pain relieving chemicals |
| Morphine | a pain relieving chemical found in poppy seeds |
| Codeine | a pain relieving chemical found in poppy seeds |
| Papyrus | An Ancient form of paper, made from the plant papyrus |
| Thales | A 6th century scientist who studied the Heavens/space |
| Anaximander | A 6th century scientist who studied life of all kinds |
| Anaximenes | A 6th century scientist who studied Air |
| Atoms | Make up everything. Developed by the Ancient Greeks |
| Leucippus | a Greek scientist who lived around 100 to 150 years after Anaximenes, an built on his works |
| Democritus | studied atoms and density |
| Density | describes how tightly packed the matter is packed in a substance |
| Aristole | called the father of life science. he wrote about philosophy, mathematics, logic, and physics |
| Classification | filing, organizing, and ordering scientific facts in a reasonable, and systematic way |
| Alexander the Great | the king of Macedon |
| Spontaneous generation | the idea that living organisms can be spontaneously formed from non-living substances |
| Archimedes | lived 100 years after Aristole, he was a notable mathematician |
| Ptolemy | lived 100 years after Christs birth, studied the heavens |
| Ptolemy system | Ptolemy's view of the stars and planets |
| Geocentric system | Ptolemy's theory that the earth is in the center of the universe |
| Evolution | the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth |
| Alchemy | finding a means to transform an inexpensive substance into gold or a precious substance |
| Chemical reaction | when one, or more substances interact to form one, or more new substances |
| Dark ages | the time of the Roman Empire |
| Encyclopedias | large volumes of scientific observations and speculations |
| Constellations | patterns of stars |
| Supernova | essentially the explosion of a star |
| Nebula | a cloud of dust and gas |
| Robert Grosseteste | A roman Catholic Bishop, who inquried to the reason behind the scientific facts, known as the father of the Scientific method |
| Heliocentric system | the theory in which the Sun is the Center of the universe |
| Roger Bacon | A theologian who believed the more people about Science, the more the would learned about God |
| Thomas Bradwardine | Questioned the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, and he ousted the works of Aristole |
| Nicholas of Cusa | studied the planets and stars, broke free from Ptolemy's ideas |
| Nicholaus Copernicus | invented the heliocentric system, wrote books, and changed the way science was done |
| Copernican system | Also known as the heliocentric system, invented by Nicholaus Copernicus |
| Andereas Vesalius | wrote and illustrated a book about the "insides" of the human body |
| Johannes Kepler | made observations of the heavens, introduced the idea the the planets travel in Ellipses |
| Foci | the singular of focus |
| Galileo Galilei | worked with telescopes, discovered that planets only reflect the light of the sun, |
| Blaise Pascal | wrote "Pascals wager", was a mathematician and scientist |
| Atmospheric pressure | assumes the air we breathe exerts pressure on everything |
| Ellipse | a sort of an oval |
| Dietrich Von Friberg | Explained the scientific phenomenon of the rainbow |
| Sir Issac Newton | a brilliant man that invented the three laws of motion |
| Robert Boyle | the founder of modern chemistry |
| Antoni Leeuwenhook | a chemist who invented the microscope |
| Microscope | an optical instrument used for viewing very small objects |
| The Enlightenment | 1735 A.D to 1820 A.D |
| Carolus Linnaeus | wrote a book the classified all living creatures that had been studied |
| Antonie-Laurent Lavoisier | studied Chemical reactions |
| Law of Mass Conservation | the idea that matter cannot be created or destroyed only, it can only change forms |
| Atomic theory | invented by John Dalton, the idea of atoms |
| Combustion | the process of burning |
| Industrial Revolution | industrialization marked a shift to powered, special-purpose machinery, factories and mass production. |
| Charles R. Darwin | invented the immutability of species, natural selection, and advanced the theory of Evolution |
| immutability of species | The idea that each individual species on the planet was specially created by God and could never fundamentally change. The idea that species were immutable by many pre-Darwin biologists |
| Natural Selection | the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring |
| Louis Pasteur | A chemist the destroyed the idea of Spontaneous generation |
| Pasteurization | subject (milk, wine, or other products) to a process of partial sterilization, |
| geology | The study of rocks |
| Sir Charles Lyell | Sir Charles Lyell was the most famous lawyer and geologist of his time. He wrote " Principles of Geology" |
| Gregor Mendel | An Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual recognition as founder of the science of genetics |
| Genetics | how traits are passed from parent to offspring |
| Michael Faraday | worked with electricity |
| James Clerk Maxwell | the father of modern physics |
| electromagnetism | the interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields |
| James Joule | He studied the relationship between heat and mechanical work, research that led to the First Law of Thermodynamics. |
| First Law of thermodynamics | it states that the change in the internal energy of a system is equal to the sum of the heat added to the system and the work done on it. |
| Max Planek | German physicist whose explanation of blackbody radiation in the context of quantized energy emissions initiated quantum theory |
| Quanta | little pockets of electricity |
| Quantum mechanics | it is the part of physics that tells how the things that make up atoms work. |
| Albert Einstein | a physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity; Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy |
| Neils Bohr | developed the Bohr model |
| special theory of relativity | determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, |
| general theory of relativity | determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, |
| Bohr Model | a theory of atomic structure in which the hydrogen atom |
| John Dalton | experimented with Gases |
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