Test 1

Question 1

What are the 4 Pillars of Knowledge

Answer 1

Breadth, connections, critical thinking, civic engagement

Question 2

What is breadth in this circumstance?

Answer 2

A wide range of knowledge

Question 3

What are connections in this circumstance?

Answer 3

Connect knowledge across many disciplines of study

Question 4

What is critical thinking?

Answer 4

Analyzing an argument to see if it holds up to basic scrutiny

Question 5

What are the four disciplines of knowledge?

Answer 5

Science, Social Science, Humanities, Fine Arts

Question 6

What does science help us understand?

Answer 6

How the world works

Question 7

What do the social sciences help us understand?

Answer 7

How we work in the world

Question 8

What do the humanities help us understand?

Answer 8

Human interactions

Question 9

What purpose do the Fine Arts serve?

Answer 9

To show the expressions of the world

Question 10

What is the purpose of science?

Answer 10

To produce good, useful models for the natural world

Question 11

To the best of our knowledge, how do we know if something is true?

Answer 11

Reproduceable explanations, reliable predictions

Question 12

What are the characteristics of inductive reasoning?

Answer 12

Rigorous testing of hypotheses yields data, one counter-example is enough to disprove

Question 13

Where does sciences gets it’s drive?

Answer 13

Ignorance

Question 14

What were the motivations for early scientific research?

Answer 14

To explain God’s creations

Question 15

Who is the person known for Quantum theory?

Answer 15

Max Planck

Question 16

What is quantum theory?

Answer 16

describes the nature of the smallest scales or energy forms such as atoms and subatomic particles.

Question 17

Are particles predictable or non predictable?

Answer 17

non predictable

Question 18

What is quantum indeterminacy?

Answer 18

The idea that a particle can be in several different locations at one time

Question 19

What is the theory of general relativity?

Answer 19

the speed of light in a vacuum was independant of all observers

Question 20

What is Schrodinger’s cat?

Answer 20

A cat is put in a box with a dangerous substance. You do not know if the cat is dead or alive unless you open the box. If you don’t open the box the cat is dead and alive at the same time

Question 21

What is Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle?

Answer 21

There is a limit to how accurate measurements can be

Question 22

What are the characteristics of atoms?

Answer 22

They come in different shapes and sizes, they are indivisible

Question 23

What were some things in Ancient Greek society that made them the most scientifically advanced society of their time?

Answer 23

questioned the world in a systematic way, looked to explain the world without involving mythological figures, free education for all free men

Question 24

Who was the father of philosophy?

Answer 24

Socrates

Question 25

What did Plato accomplish during his lifetime?

Answer 25

Founded the first school for philosophy, Wrote a book called the Republic

Question 26

What was written in The Republic?

Answer 26

The order and character of the just city-state

Question 27

What is the allegory of the cave?

Answer 27

A metaphor where people are chained up since birth and only see the shadows of reality. One day, one of them escapes and sees the real world and understands that shadows are not everything. he is enlightened by knowledge.

Question 28

What are the 7 liberal arts?

Answer 28

Grammar, Logic, rhetoric, Astronomy, Music, Geometry, Arithmetic

Question 29

What are some characteristics of The Middle Ages?

Answer 29

- Feudal Society - Church had all the power - Knowledge was only for the elite

Question 30

What are some characteristics of The Renaissance?

Answer 30

- rediscovery of old knowledge - new ideas about art and science - ideas were adopted from the arabic world - spread of literacy

Question 31

What was the major invention that made knowledge more accessible to everyone?

Answer 31

The printing press

Question 32

What are some characteristics of The Enlightenment?

Answer 32

- Reason over Religion - Creation of new Knowledge - The Scientific Method