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What do you know about great scientists? Try the quiz on P1 and find out who knows the most.
Warming up
1.Which scientist discovered that objects in water are lifted up by a force that helps them float?
Archimedes (287-212 BC) an ancient Greek mathematician & physicist
2.Who wrote a book explaining how animals and plants developed as the environment changed?
Charles Darwin (1808-1882) British author of The Origin of Species
3.Who invented the first steam engine?
Thomas Newcomen (1663-1729) British, improved the first steam pump and turned it into a steam engine for taking water out of mines in 1712. James Watt improved it and turned it into the first modern steam engine used on the railways.
4.Who used peas to show how physical characteristics are passed from parents to their children?
Gregor Mendel
(1822-1884) Czech ( 捷克人 )
6.Who invented the way of giving electricity to everybody in large cities?
Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
an American inventor
7.Who was the painter that studied dead bodies to improve his painting of people?
Last Supper
Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian artist
8.Who invented a lamp to keep miners safe underground?
Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829)British
Miniature Miner's Safety Lamp
9.Who invented the earliest instrument to tell people where earthquakes happened?
Zhang Heng
(78-139) Chinese, invented seismograph
10.Who put forward a theory about black holes?
Stephen Hawking
(1942--) a British astronomer
Q Answer
1. Archimedes
2. Charles Darwin
3. Thomas Newcomen
4. Gregor Mendel
5. Marie Curie
6. Thomas Edison
7. Leonardo da Vinci
8. Sir Humphry Davy
9. Zhang Heng
10. Stephen Hawking
Pre-reading (pair discussion)
What five most important qualities do you think a scientist should have? Give reasons. careful clever strict patient creative strong-willed honest serious intelligent humorous ambitious generous
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