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Unit Quiz

History of science

This quiz will help you to assess your learning of key concepts and knowledge in this unit.

Q1.What was Michael Faraday's major discovery?

A new type of materialHow to build an electric motorHow to make the first battery

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Q2.What was Lewis Howard Latimer's major discovery?

How to build an electric motorStatic electricityHow to improve a filament bulb

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Q3.What was the major discovery of Mildred Dresselhaus?

The filament lightThe first mobile phoneA new material that led to the first rechargeable batteries

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Q4.Which of these materials was used by humans first?

GlassBronzeWood

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Q5.Which came first?

Microscopes used to study anatomyGalen studies anatomy through animal dissectionsX-ray machine invented

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Q6.What is Charles Drew famous for?

Performing the first surgeryOpening the first blood bankInventing blood analysis

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Q7.Which one of these is NOT a scientific development that the discovery of DNA has led to?

DNA fingerprintingX-ray machinesUnderstanding inherited diseases

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Q8.What did Rosalind Franklin do?

Isolated DNA from cellsTook an x-ray photograph of DNAWrote a paper about the structure of DNA

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Q9.The sun is at the centre of the universe in the.....

geocentric modelheliocentric model

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Q10.In 1473 how did people think that the planets moved?

in circular orbitsin elliptical orbits

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Q11.A scientific idea is ________ for how something works that was figured out using the scientific process.

a descriptionan explanationan instruction

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Q12.What theory did Charles Darwin come up with?

Theory of evolutionTheory of relativityBig bang theory

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Q13.What is the first step in the scientific process?

HypothesisAsk a questionCollect and analyse data

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Q14.What is the last step in the scientific process?

To collect and analyse dateTo communicateTo check if the evidence fits

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Q15.What is peer review?

A formal discussion or argumentWorking with someoneEvaluation of scientific work by others working in the same field

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