Galileo Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

KAPPA SIGMA FINAL PLEDGE TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ALL CORRECT 2024/2025 GRADED A+. 2 / 14 1. Who is the "Father of Kappa Simga"?: Manuel Chrysoloras 2. When was Manuel Chrysoloras Born?Where?: Greece, 1350 3. Why was Manuel Chrysoloras chosen for his mission?: For his intelligence, diplomatic skill, and his families close ties with the Greek Emperor 4. When and where did Manuel Chrysolores teach?: Florence 1396 Bologna 1397- 1400 5. What is the name of the academic text Manuel Ch...

WGU C165 - Integrated Physical Sciences Final Exam Questions and Answers Latest Graded A+ (2023/2024). Which of the following terms best describes a research project that involves sending a space probe to a distant asteroid to land on it and collect data? a controlled experiment a field study a laboratory experiment Even though the scientists are not on the asteroid, they are conducting data collection in the field. Question 6 of 14 A main reason to do a field study rather than a laborat...

heliocentric theory places the sun at the CENTER of the solar system, states that all other bodies in the solar system orbit it. This was in direct contradiction to Ptolemy's geocentric theory, that stated the earth was the center of the universe Nicolaus Copernicus widely credited as the father of the heliocentric theory (sun is the center of the universe) he was not the first to propose the concept but his mathematical model was the first that correctly predicted the movement of the pl...

Natural Selection - correct answer Evolution by variation and selective retention Morphology - correct answer an organism's size, shape, and composition Stabilizing Selection - correct answer Selection required to change a population and then keep it the same for future generations species - correct answer dynamic population of individuals individual selection - correct answer adaptation results from the competition among individuals continuous - correct answer grade slowly from ...

Physiological Having to do with an organism's physical processes. Cognitive Having to do with an organism's thinking and understanding Psychology The scientific study of behavior that is tested through scientific research Hypothesis An assumption or prediction about behavior that is tested through scientific study. Theory A set of assumptions used to explain phenomena and offered for scientific study. Basic Science The pursuit of knowledge about natural...

Baroque Review Study Guide Test 2024. The Baroque Period encompassed a wide range of artistic developments across a broad geographic area of Europe during the _________ century - correct answer 17th Regional variations abound: - correct answer Italian Baroque differs from Dutch Baroque, or French Baroque, for example The word Baroque itself may derive from the Portuguese word for an ________________________, "barroco," and was a term of disparagement - correct answer irregular pearl ...

What does a spectrometer measure? a) resolution b) how much light of each color is coming from a sky object c) subtended angle between stars d) length of a sidereal year - Answer-b) how much light of each color is coming from a sky The apparent path of the sun, moon, planets, and zodiac across the sky is called the a) equator b) celestial equator c) ecliptic d) horizon - Answer-c) ecliptic What is special about the stars Mizar and Alcor in the Big Dipper? a) they are actually a system...

IH II Midterm Study Guide Questions 1. In his 1609 letter to the chief magistrate of Venice, Galileo proposes that the telescope, a new invention, is "a thing of inestimable benefit" for what type of applications? (7/8). At this point, what was Galileo "obviously more concerned with"? (9/10). - ANSWER-When writing his 1609 letter to the chief magistrate of Venice, Galilei was more concerned with the benefits the telescope could yield to improve standards on earth, namely navigatio...

LECTURE 11: Kepler's Third Law - More distant planets orbit the Sun at slower average speeds, obeying the relationship. p^2 = a^3 p = orbital period in years; a = average distance from the Sun in AU To calculate orbital period: a^3 then sqrt() your result of a^3 or in other words, p = √(a^3) LECTURE 12: Galileo overcame major objections to the Copernican view. Three key objections rooted in the Aristotelian view were the following: 1. Earth could not be moving because objects in a...

Contemporary Issues in Biology Final ~ TCU, Sawey Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass scopes trial in 1925 - Answer- -general science teacher who broke the law in tennessee against teaching "any story that denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the bible, and to teach that man has descended from a lower order animal" -found guilty and fined -since this trial, US supreme court has ruled in favor of teaching evolution in public schools galileo - Answer- -exposed th...