Physics Fundamentals Quiz

Physics comes from the Latin physica, which itself is a borrowing of the Greek _________

Early civilizations dating before 3000 BCE, such as the Sumerians, ancient Egyptians, and the Indus Valley Civilisation, had a predictive knowledge and a basic awareness of the motions of the _________, _________, and stars

The origins of Western astronomy can be found in _________

Natural philosophy has its origins in Greece during the Archaic period (650 BCE – 480 BCE), when pre-Socratic philosophers like Thales rejected non-naturalistic explanations for natural phenomena and proclaimed that every event had a natural _________

The Western Roman Empire fell in the fifth century, and this resulted in a decline in intellectual pursuits in the western part of Europe. By contrast, the Eastern Roman Empire (usually known as the Byzantine Empire) resisted the attacks from the barbarians, and continued to advance various fields of learning, including _________

Physics is the natural science of ______

Physics intersects with many interdisciplinary areas of research, such as ______ and quantum chemistry

Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines and, through its inclusion of ______, perhaps the oldest

A scientist who specializes in the field of physics is called a ______

Advances in physics often enable new ______

Before the introduction of GCSEs, students took ______ exams

GCSEs were introduced in September 1986 to establish a national qualification for those who decided to leave school at ______

The CSE broadly covered GCSE grades ______ or 4–1

The separate qualifications were criticised for disadvantaging the bottom 42% of O-Level entrants who failed to receive a qualification, and the highest-achieving CSE entrants who had no opportunity to demonstrate higher ______

The first GCSE exams were sat in ______