Term |
Definition |
Science |
An endeavor dedicated to the accumulation and classification of observable facts in order to formulate general laws about the natural world |
Imhotep |
He was renowned knowledge medicine |
penicillin |
A chemical that killed germs that infect wounds |
poppy seeds |
Used to treat pain with morphine and codeine |
morphine and codeine |
Pain relieving drug |
Papyrus |
An ancient form of paper, made from a plant of the same name |
Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes |
Many historians view these three individuals as humanity's first real scientists |
atoms |
Electrons and a compact nucleus of protons and neutrons. An atom is the smallest constituent unit of ordinary matter that has the properties of a chemical element. Every solid, liquid, gas, and plasma is composed of neutral or ionized atoms. |
Leucippus |
Historians believe that he built on the concepts of Anaximenes and proposed that all matter is composed of little units called atoms |
Democritus |
He believed that all matter was like sand and studied atoms |
density |
How compact the atoms are in an object |
Aristotle |
The father of life science |
spontaneous generation |
The idea that living organisms can generate from non living substances |
Archimedes |
He applied mathematical formulas to explain why certain thing happen the way they do |
Ptolemy |
He studied the heavens and came up with the geocentric system |
Geocentric System |
A system were the earth is in the middle |
Ptolemaic System |
The geocentric system |
alchemy |
Mixing items to try make a different items |
chemical reation |
One or more substance interact to form another |
Dark Ages |
A time that little was learned |
encyclopedias |
The accumulation of data and ideas |
constellations |
A group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure. Modern astronomers divide the sky into eighty-eight constellations with defined boundaries. |
supernova |
The brilliant point of light is the explosion of a star that has reached the end of its life. |
nebula |
A nebula is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases |
Robert Grosseteste |
He wanted to explain why things happened the way they did |
Dietrich von Freilberg |
Built on Grosseteste work and was able to offer an expiation |
Roger Bacon |
He proposed experiments that, when preformed, showed that goat's blood had no effect whatsoever on diamonds |
Thomas Bradwardine |
He was one of the first to view scientist to examine many of Aristotle's ideas critically |
Nicholas of Cusa |
He studied the plaints and the stars he was the first to brake the Ptolemy system |
Nicolaus Copernicus |
He believed that Ptolemy's view was wrong and proposed the heliocentric system |
Heliocentric System |
A system that Nicolaus Copernicus proposed |
Copernican System |
The heliocentric system |
Johannes Kepler |
Studied the heavens |
Galileo Galilei |
He was a well respected science and worked with telescopes |
Blaise Pascal |
He was a brilliant philosopher, mathematician, and scientist |
atmospheric pressure |
The pressure exerted by the weight of the atmosphere |
Sir Isaac Newton |
The greatest scientist in history |
Robert Boyle |
The founder of modern chemistry |
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek |
He looked threw the first microscope |
Carolus Linnaeus |
He published a book trying to classify |
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier |
the first to realize matter cannot be destroyed but can only change forms |
Law of Mass Conservation |
The law that states matter cannot be destroyed but can only change forms |
John Dalton |
proposed the atomic theory |
Atomic Theory |
the theory that matter consists of indivisible particles called atoms and that atoms of a given element are all identical and can neither be created nor destroyed |
Charles R. Darwin |
The father of evolution |
natural selection |
It is a process were lets say a deer has thin fur in a cold climate will he live most likely not, so the deer with thick fur will live and have kids and pass the thick fur down to the kids |
Louis Pasteur |
Invented pasteurization |
pasteurization |
it is a process used to keep milk from souring |
Sir Charles Lyell |
found evidence to "prove" that it is millions of years old |
Gregor Mendel |
formed the entire field of modern genetics |
genetics |
how traits are passed on from parent to offspring |
Michael Faraday |
experiments and ideas abut electricity led to him getting the nick name electrical giant |
James Clerk Maxwell |
founder of modern physics |
electromagnetism |
Electromagnetism is a branch of physics involving the study of the electromagnetic force, a type of physical interaction that occurs between electrically charged particles. |
James Joule |
determent that energy cannot be destroyed nor created but it can change form |
First Law of Thermodynamics |
The law of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system is constant; energy can be transformed from one form to another, but can be neither created nor destroyed. |
Max Planck |
proposed an ingenious idea much like matter exists in tiny packets calked atoms and energy exists in tiny packets called quanta |
Albert Einstein |
Einstein was able to enplane the "unexplainable" problem using the idea of quanta |
Bohr Model |
Niels Bohr's picture model of a atom |
Niels Bohr |
developed a picture of a atom |
classification |
the action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics. |
classification |
the action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics. |
Alexander the great |
Alexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty |
evolution |
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations |
chemical reaction |
A physical change, such as a state change or dissolving, . In a chemical reaction, the atoms and molecules that interact with each other are called reactants. In a chemical reaction, the atoms and molecules produced by the reaction are called products. |
T or F: scientific progress depends on not only scientist but it depends on agriculture |
True |
T or F: science progresses by building on the work of other scientist |
True |
T or F: science can prove anything |
False |
ellipse |
a regular oval shape, traced by a point moving in a plane so that the sum of its distances from two other points |
foci (focus) |
a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity |
microscope |
an optical instrument used for viewing very small objects, such as mineral samples or animal or plant cells, typically magnified several hundred times |
enlightenment |
The Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement which dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century |
combustion |
the process of burning something |
industrial revolution |
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. |
immutability of the 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 |
geologist |
A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes that shape it |
quanta |
a discrete quantity of energy proportional in magnitude to the frequency of the radiation it represents. |
quantum mechanics |
also known as quantum physics or quantum theory, including quantum field theory, is a branch of physics which is the fundamental theory of nature at the smallest scales of energy levels of atoms and subatomic particles. |