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How is the scientific method and the process of science used to solve problems?

It helps us understand out Natural invironment.

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What is the scientific method? What is its purpose?

An orderly method of gaining, organizing, and applying new knowledge. Observe, question, hypothesize, predict, test, & draw a conclusion. - To propose explanations for natural phenomena

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Explain the following componant of the scientific method: Observation

Watching and understanding your invironment.

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Explain the following componant of the scientific method: Hypothesis - Periction

An educated guess or a reasonable explanation.

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Law or principle

A general hypothesis or statement about the relationship of natural quantitites that has been tested over and over again and has not been Contradicted.

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Principle of Falsifiability

For a hypothesis to be considered scientific it must be testable-it must, in priciple, be capable of being proven wrong.

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Fact

A phenomenon about which competent observers can agree.

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Theory

A synthesis, or collection, of a large body of information that encompasses well-tested hypotheses about certain aspects of natural world.

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Science

The collective findings of humans about nature, and a process of gathering and organizing knowledge about nature.

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When did modern science begin?

16th Century

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Who were the first two men to formalize a parataicular method for doing science?

Galileo Galilei & Francis Bacon.

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What is the cardinal rule in science?

All hypotheses must be testable. They must be capable of being shown wrong.

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Aristotle claimed what?

That heavy objects naturally fall fasater than light objects?

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What did Galileo do that changed science forever?

He experimented.

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Biology

Is the study of living organisms

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Chemistry

Is concerned with the composition structure and properties of matter as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions.

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Physics

The study of change, movement or motion thropugh space and time.

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Geology

The study of the solid and liquid matter that is the earth.

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Astronomy

One of the oldest sciences. The study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the earths atmosphere.

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Limitations of science

Science can not determine value. Science can not answer questions of morality. Super-natural

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Who used logic & rational thought in a systematic way?

Ancient Greeks

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What are the arts concerned with and what do they ask?

Personal interpretation & creative expression. - They ask "Who?"

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What is religion concerned with and what does it ask?

It addresses the source, purpose, & meaning of it all, and asks "Why?".

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What does science ask?

How

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Technology

The means of solving practical problems by applying the findings of science. The means of solving practical problems by applying the findings of science.

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Natural Philosophy

Science is the present-day of what used to be called Natural Philosophy, which is the study of unanswered questions about nature.

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What does the study of science branch into the study of?

Living & non living things (life sciences & physical sciences)

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What does life science branch into?

Molecular biology, microbiology, and ecology

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What does physical science branch into?

Physics, chemistry, earth sciences, & astronomy.

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What do physics & chemistry do when applied to earth and its processes?

They make up earth science. Geology, meteorology, & oceanography.

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What are we speaking about when we apply physics, chemistry, and geology to other planets and to the stars?

Astronomy

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Kilogram

The unit of mass. Equals the mass of 1 liter of water at 4C.

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Kelvin

A unit of absolute temperature, one kelvin degree is equal to one celsius degree

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pH units

Stands for potential of hydrogen. instrument used to test the acidity or alkalinity of a liquid

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Joules

The derived unit of energy in the International system of units.

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Newtons

Scientific unit of force. It is equal to the amount of net force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram at a rate of one meter per second squared. F=ma

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Liter

Unit of volume.

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Grams

Measures mass, base unit is kilogram

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