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29 Cards in this Set
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Walter Scott
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romantic novelist (historical novels like Ivanhoe)
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Victor Hugo
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romantic writer (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
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Roentgen
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discovered x-rays
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Rutherford
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found atoms have small heavy core
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nucleus
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center of atom, orbited by protons and electrons
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Planck
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quantum theory - energy only released in small packages
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Einstein
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Theory of Relativity
E=mc2 |
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Lamarck
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believed living beings change to fit surroundings
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Darwin
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theory of evolution
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Mendel
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showed with plants that things inherit dominant traits and recessive traits
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dominant traits
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traits that show up in offspring
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recessive traits
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traits that don't show up but offspring carry them
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pasteurization
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super-heating liquids to kill off bacteria
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Enlightenment
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intellectual movement in 1700s which focused on reason, progress and the future
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Romanticism
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1800's literary movement which rejected Enlightenment; appealed to emotion, innovation, nature, the past
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Realism
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1800's literary movement rejected romanticism; focused on the realistic, present, ordinary
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Naturalism
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off-shoot of Realism; writer's focused on ugly things, not revealing any emotion
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All Marie/Pierre Curie's discoveries
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radioactive elements
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Why was Darwin's theory was weak?
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It condradicted the Bible; fossil records disprove the timeline
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Mendel's discoveries & how made them?
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dominant and recessive traits; worked with plants
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Pasteur's discoveries
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germs cause disease; innoculation allows person to build up antibodies to fight
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Jenner's discoveries
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rediscovered innoculation
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3 life-saving medicines
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aspirin, insulin, penicillin
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Romantic composers and what they wrote for
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Beethoven - wrote from painful childhood
Chopin |
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Describe 2 impressionist artists
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Monet - painted river scene
Renoir - painted 2 girls at piano |
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Describe the nonconformist sculptor
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sculpted "The Thinker"
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Describe 2 post-impressionist
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Cezanne - wanted to treat nature in terms of shapes
Van Gogh - mentally disturbed |
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Impressionists tried to do what? How?
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tried to create scenes you would see at a brief glance.
Small patches of different colors |
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Describe how romanticism was different from (reaction against) the enlightenment, AND how realism was different from (reaction against romanticism
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Romanticism was a literary movement that rejected the enlightenment and appealed to emotion, sentiment, imagination, past & nature where enlightenment focused on reason, progress and future. Realism was against romanticism because realism focused on ideas of the realistic, ordinary/everyday, present, where romanticism was based on emotion and sentiment, imagination,past and nature.
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