Unit 1 Great scientists Warming upWhat do they have in common?They are scientists. Let’s have a competition! Try this quiz and find out who knows the most. 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 DarwinCharles Darwin (1809-1882) 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. 4. Who used peas to show how physical characteristics are passed from parents to their children.Gregor MendelCzech (1822-1884)Grew peaplants and developed ideas on heredity and inherited characteristics. 5. Who discovered radium?Marie Curie(1867-1934) (Polish and French, won two Nobel Prizes) 6.Who invented the way of giving electricity to everybody in large cities? Thomas Edison(1847-1931) an American inventor, invented phonograph, electric light bulb. 7.Who was the painter that studied dead bodies to improve his painting of people? Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian artistMona Lisa 8. Who invented a lamp to keep miners safe underground?Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) British, did research into different gases 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 遗传学 电浮力定理 镭进化论 画家 蒸汽机矿工安全灯黑洞理论地震仪阿基米德 Archimedes达尔文 Charles Darwin纽科文 Thomas Newcomen孟德尔 Gr...
