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Science Chapter 4 Test
Mr. G
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Science
7th Grade
11/14/2012

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 2 ways spontaneous generation was disproved?
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Meat man and dust man
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 Belief that early organisms randomly changed to form the variety of life we see today?
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Evolution
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Wrote “Natural Theology”?
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Paley
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The authority on science during the Middle Ages?
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Aristotle
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Living things can only originate from existing living things?
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Law of biogenesis
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Originally created types of organisms?
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Kinds
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Materialistic idea that the present is the key to the past?
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Uniformitarianism
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What event started the birth of modern science?
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Protestant Reformation
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The view of life that is consistent with the Bible and observation?
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Orchard view
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Information must have what kind of cause?
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Intelligent
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What did most of the founders of modern science believe?
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True faith is a reasonable belief in a reasoning God
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2 supposed whale ancestors that started out living on land?
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Pakicetus and Ambulocetus
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Idea that evolution occurs in rapid bursts separated by long periods of time?
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Punctuated equilibruim
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The belief that everything is material?
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Materialism
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Foundation of modern science?
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Bible
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2 books written by Charles Darwin?
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Origin of Species and Decent of Man
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Intermediate organism linking types of living things?
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Transitional form
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Basic similarity of structure between two different living things?
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Homology
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Sudden, permanent, random change in and organism’s DNA?
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Mutation
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Information must have meaning and cannot occur by chance?
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Specified complexity
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Idea that embry?os resemble adult forms of their evolutionary ancestors
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Embryonic recapitulaition
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New organisms within a “kind”?
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Speciation
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Founded comparative anatomy?
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Cuvier
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Wrote “Principles of Geology”?
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Lyell
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Useless” organs supposedly left over from earlier stages of evolution?
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Vestigial Organs
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Greek idea that nonliving things can produce living things?
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Spontaneous generation
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. Used broth and flasks to disprove spontaneous generation?
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Pasteur
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Father of Anatomy?
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Vesalius
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Proposed that evolution occurs through natural selection?
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Darwin
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