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| What KEY TERM means "...the era of scientific thought in Europe during which careful observation of the natural world was made and accepted beliefs were questioned..."? | Scientific Revolution |
| What KEY TERM means "...a series of logical steps formulated by Francis Bacon and used in scientific research that stressed observation and experimentation..."? | scientific method |
| What KEY TERM means "...an assumption that accounts for a set of facts and that can be tested by investigation..."? | hypothesis |
| How did the scientific discoveries of Copernicus offer a new view on the world? | Copernicus questioned accepted beliefs and sought to test them against data gathered through careful observation. This way of thinking ushered in the Scientific Revolution. |
| Why was the Catholic Church threated by Galileo's ideas? | Galileo supported the idea of a sun-centered universe. Catholics claimed that the sun-centered theory denied the earth -- and therefore, human beings -- the central place in God's plan. |
| What do Luther and Wycliffe have in common with Copernicus and Vesalius? | The religious reformers challenged accepted ideas about the spiritual world. The scientists questioned classical theories about the physical world. |
| What was revolutionary about the scientific method? | The idea of the scientific method holds that people cannot learn by relying on established truths, but by observing, collecting, and analyzing data. |
