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Unit 1 Great Scientists
Warming Up
What do you know about great scientists Try this quiz and find out who knows the most.
1. Which scientists discovered that objects in water are lifted up by a force that helps them float
Archimedes
阿基米德Archimedes, Ancient Greek (287-212 BC), a mathematician.
2. Who wrote a book explaining how animals and plants developed as the environment changed
Charles Darwin达尔文Charles Darwin, Britain (1808-1882).The name of the book is Origin of Species.
3. Who invented the first advanced steam engine
James Watt瓦特James Watt (1736-1819) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer, who was renowned for his improvements of the steam engine.
4. Who used peas to show how physical characteristics are passed from parents to their children
Gregor Mendel门德尔Gregor Mendel, Czech, a botanist and geneticist.
5. Who discovered radium
Marie Curie 居里夫人 Marie Curie, Polish and French, a chemist and physicist. She discovered
radium.
6. Who invented the way of giving electricity to everybody in large cities
Thomas Edison 爱迪生
Thomas Edison, American, an inventor. He invented the lights and the gramophone.
7. Who was the painter that studied dead bodies to improve his painting of people
Leonardo da Vinci 达芬奇Leonardo da Vinci, Italian, an artist.
8. Who invented a lamp to keep miners safe underground
Humphry Davy 汉弗莱 戴维
Sir Humphry Davy, British, an inventor and chemist.
9. Who invented the earliest instrument to tell people where earthquakes happened
张衡Zhang Heng, ancient China, an inventor.
10. Who put forward a theory about black holes
Stephen Hawking 斯帝芬 霍金Stephen Hawking, British, a physicist.
Discussion
What do you know about infectious diseases
Infectious diseases can be spread easily. They have an unknown cause and may do great harm to people.
People could be exposed to infectious diseases, so may animals, such as bird flu.
AIDS, SARS are infectious diseases. They are difficult to cure.
What do you know about cholera
Do you know how to prove a new idea in scientific research
Thank You