Lesson 2

Question 1

From the age of 4,000 BC, the high priest of Sumeria scrutinized the stars, the vast records of such endeavors were inscribed on tablets that were made of clay

Answer 1

The Advent of Science (600 BC to 1400 AD)

Question 2

Foresaw the occurrence of a rare solar eclipse

Answer 2

Thales

Question 3

Did not engage the experiment, reasoned that if he had been able to gather astute men with intelligence

Answer 3

Aristotle

Question 4

Was able to detect the characteristics of liquid, such as fluids.

Answer 4

Archimedes

Question 5

Tinkered with the Earth breath and width

Answer 5

Erastosthenes

Question 6

He constructed precise clocks

Answer 6

Ctesibius

Question 7

Were able to Invent gunpowder, fireworks, rockets, metas and guns, seismograph and compass

Answer 7

Chinese

Question 8

Invented by Zhang Heng

Answer 8

Seismoscope

Question 9

Was first used by Indians

Answer 9

Spinning wheel

Question 10

Brilliant Indian mathematics were also responsible for the development of?

Answer 10

Arabic Number System

Question 11

It was great use to Arabic nomads who used such knowledge of the heavenly bodies to navigate their tireless camels across the Arabian desert.

Answer 11

Science of Astronomy

Question 12

Who wrote about optics

Answer 12

Alhazen

Question 13

A physician who formulated soap and made distinction between smallpox and measles

Answer 13

Al-Razi

Question 14

He introduced algebra and algorithm.

Answer 14

Al-khwarizmi

Question 15

He was the 1st to use rod System

Answer 15

Al-jazari

Question 16

The Golden age of the Islamic period, allowed to blossoming the science in the 750s.

Answer 16

The Great Scientific Revolution of 1400 to 1700 AD

Question 17

He proposed the Heliocentric theory.

Answer 17

Nicolaus Copernicus

Question 18

He observe the elliptical orbit of Mars.

Answer 18

Johannes Kepler

Question 19

Who invented Telescope?

Answer 19

Galileo Galilei

Question 20

He took advantage of Galileo’s ideas with pendulum and soon the 1st pendulum clock in 1657.

Answer 20

Christiaan Huygens

Question 21

The 1600s saw the growth of new technological developments that drove scientist to study objects in their smallest state.

Answer 21

The Age of Micro-beings (Robert Hooke)

Question 22

Discovered life forms with single cells like bacteria

Answer 22

Antonio Van Leeuwenhoek

Question 23

His work considered as 1st important attempt to systematize the classification of living things.

Answer 23

John Ray

Question 24

Newtonian physics, also Newtonian or mechanics is the description of mechanical events.

Answer 24

Isaac Newton

Question 25

Newton’s first Law of Motion

Answer 25

Inertia

Question 26

Newton’s second law of Motion

Answer 26

Force

Question 27

Newton’s third law of motion

Answer 27

Action and Reaction

Question 28

The mesopotamia referring to the land between the river.

Answer 28

Tigris and Euphrates river