World History 3- Chapter 23 Flashcards
Internal Combustion Engine
Engine where burning or combustion took place inside the cylinders
Several European Inventors
Dynamo
Electric generator
Michael Faraday
Biological Sciences
Deals with living organisms
Physical Sciences
Nonliving matter and energy
Natural Selection
Survival of the Fittest
Charles Darwin
Genetics
Study of how the inborn characteristics of plants and animals are inherited by their descendants
Gregor Mendel
Vaccination
Exposing a subject to a mild case of an illness to build up antibodies so that person doesn’t get sick later
Edward Jenner
Pasteurization
Heating liquids to kill bacteria and prevent fermentation
Louis Pasteur
Antisepsis
Use of chemicals to kill disease causing germs
Joseph Lister
Radioactivity
Elements constantly breaking down and releasing energy
Quanta and quantum theory
Energy can only be released in definite “packages”
Max Planch
Special Theory of Relativity
No matter can move faster than speed of light motion is relative to observe
Albert Einstein
Social Sciences
Study people as members of society. Economics, History, Political institutions and human relations
Social Darwinism
Those who had acquired wealth & power had done so because of their superior abilities
Psychoanalysis
Process of revealing and analyzing unconscious motivations
Sigmund Freud