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FinalExamStudyGuide
Question | Answer |
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what does the study of science today branch into? | the study of the life sciences and the physical sciences |
the study of nature of things such as motion, forces, energy, matter, heat, sound, light, and the composition of atoms | physics |
the study of how matter is put together, how atoms combine to form molecules, and how the molecules combine to make up matter | chemistry |
the study of matter that is alive | biology |
what are equations? | a way to express relationships between concepts |
who are the scientists credited for founding the scientific method | galileo and bacon |
what are the steps of the scientific method? | recognize a problem, make an educated guess about a possible answer,predict consequences of the hypothesis, perform experiment to test prediction, formulate the simplest general rule that organizes the main ingredients of hypothesis,prediction,exp.outcome |
what happens in a controlled experiment? | there are usually two or more experimental groups whose results are compared to a control group that is kept under normal, standard conditions |
variables? hypothesis? | independent-changed on purpose dependent-resulting change hypothesis - if... then... statement |
what does a scientist do if evidence is found that contradicts a law, principle, or hypothesis? | it must be abandoned or changed, a single verifiable experiment that shows the idea is wrong is reliable |
how are theories from scientific and everyday related? | they are both hypotheses, everyday-not tested scientific-tested |
for a hypothesis to be scientific... what is science? | must be a test to prove it wrong (testable) method of answering theoretical questions, technology is a method of solving practical problems |
domains of science, art, and religion | religion-concerned with the source, purpose, and meaning of everything art-concerned with the value of human interactions as they pertain to the senses science-concerned with discovering and recording natural phenomena |
why dont science and religion contradict each other? | they have different domains, religion-nature's purpose science-natural order |
progress in the past... | vision of the cosmos, slower than it is now |
equations... | when the ideas of science are expressed in mathematical terms they are clearer, scientific findings are easier to verify or disprove when they are expressed mathematically |