Chapter 7 Section 1 fill in the blank

Question 1

________ used spells and magic formulas to try to change one substance to another

Answer 1

alchemists

Question 2

_________ believed that positions of stars influenced human life.

Answer 2

astrologers

Question 3

_________ relied on religious teachings and works of classical thinkers to explain mysteries of nature

Answer 3

natural philosophers

Question 4

during the era of the _________, people began using experiments and mathematics to understand many mysteries

Answer 4

scientific revolution

Question 5

Johann Kepler published his ________ (____) to eventually prove the Heliocentric theory

Answer 5

laws of planetary motion (1609)

Question 6

through his own telescope, Galileo was able to view ________, ________,________, and _______

Answer 6

mountains on moons
rings on Saturn
Sun spots
Moons around Jupiter

Question 7

church scholars disapproved Galileo’s theory because it contradicted the ______

Answer 7

bible

Question 8

an english-Irish chemist, ________, helped pioneer the modern science of chemistry.

Answer 8

Robert Boyle

Question 9

and English chemist, _______, discovered the element oxygen in 1774 and ______, french scientist, later named it

Answer 9

joseph Priestly

Antoine Lavoisier

Question 10

before Lavoiser, people believed _______ was an element

Answer 10

fire