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WGU INC1 Week1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Modern civilization is built on what? | Science |
| Most forms of technology from medicine to space travel are what? | Applications of science |
| What is science? | More than an organized body of knowledge about nature. |
| Science is a product of what? | Observations, common sense, rational thinking, & sometimes brilliant insights. |
| What is a method? | A way of exploring nature & discovering the order within it. |
| Who used logic & rational thought in a systematic way? | Ancient Greeks |
| Science made a great leap forward in the 15th Century because people could communicate easier because of a priting press. Who invented it? | Johann Gutenberg |
| 16th Century a Polish astronomer published a book proposing tht the Sun was stationary & the Earth revolved arou it. Who wrote the book? | Nicolaus Copernicus |
| When did modern science begin? | 16th Century |
| Who was the Italian physicist that revived the Copernican view and started modern science? | Galileo Galilei |
| What is an example of direct proportion? | The more you study for this course, the better you'll do. |
| What is an example of inverse proportion? | The more you spend the less you will have in the bank. |
| Hooke's Law | The more a spring is stretched, the harder it is to stretch it further. (ex. Slinky) |
| Control | A test that excludes the varialbe being investigated in a scientific experiment. |
| Fact | A phenomenon about which competent observers can agree. (ex. salamander limb can grow back) |
| Hypothesis | An educated guess or a reasonable explanation. |
| Law | A general hypothesis or statement about the relationship of natural quanties that has been tested over and over again and has not been contradicted. |
| Another name for Law | Principle |
| Principle of falsifiability | For a hypothesis to be considered scientific it mus be testable - it must, in principle, be capable of being proven wrong. |
| Pseudoscience | A theory or practice that is considered to be without scientific foundation but purports to use the methods of science - fake science. |
| Science | The collective findings of humans about nature, and a process of gathering and organizing knowledge about nature. |
| Scientific method | An orderly method for gaining, organizing, and applying new knowledge. |
| Technology | The means of solving practical problems by applying the findings of science. |
| Theory | A synthesis of a large body of information that encompasses well-tested hypotheses about certain aspects of the natural world. |
| Who were the first two men to formalize a parataicular method for doing science? | Galileo Galilei & Francis Bacon |
| What is the classic scientific method? | Observe, question, hypothesize, predict, test, & draw a conclusion. |
| What is the cardinal rule in science? | All hypotheses must be testable. They must be capable of being shown wrong. |
| What is the major factor that distinguishes science from nonscience? | In science it is more important that there be a means of proving an idea wrong than that there be a means of proving it right. |
| In order for a hypothesis to be considered scientific, it must be what? | Testable |
| Who claimed that heavy objects naturally fall fasater than light objects? | Aristotle |
| What did Galileo do that changed science forever? | He experimented. |
| Physicists | Explain the behavior of light |
| Chemists | Have theories about how atoms bond to form molecules. |
| Life Science | The key to the theory of evolution. |
| Earth Science | Theory of plate tectonics |
| How do theories grow stronger & stronger & more precise? | They evolve to include new information. |
| Why isn't astrology a science? | There is no validity to the claim that the positions of celestrial objects influence the events of a person's life. |
| What does the word supernatural mean? | Above nature (Science works within nature, not above it.) |
| How is science a system? | We discover & record physical phenomena & think about possible explanations for such phenomena. |
| What are the arts concerned with? | Personal interpretation & creative expression. |
| What is religion concerned with? | It addresses the source, purpose, & meaning of it all. |
| What does science ask? | How |
| What does art ask? | Who |
| What does religion ask? | Why |
| Science is the present-day of what used to be called what? | Natural Philosophy |
| What was natural philosophy? | The study of unanswered questions about nature. |
| What does the study of science branch into the study of? | Living & non living things (life sciences & physical sciences) |
| What does life sciences branch into? | Molecular biology, microbiology, and ecology |
| What does physical sciences branch into? | Physics, chemistry, earth sciences, & astronomy. |
| What is physics the study of? | Concepts of motion, force, energy, matter, heat, sound, light, and the components of atoms. |
| What is chemistry the study of? | It builds on physics by telling us how matter is put together, how atoms combine to form molecules, and how the molecules combine to make the materials around us. |
| What do physics & chemistry do when applied to earth and its processes? | They make up earth science. Geology, meteorology, & oceanography. |
| What are we speaking about when we apply physics, chemistry, and geology to other planets and to the stars? | Astronomy |
| Biology is more complex than what? | Physical science for it involves matter that is alive. |
| Underlying biology is what? | Chemistry |
| Underlying chemistry is what? | Physics |
| What is physics? | Basic to both physical science and life science. |
| What is the order of studying natural science? | Being with physics, then chemistry, & biology, than investigate earth science and conclude with astronomy. |
| What is the process by which a tree transforms solar energy to chemical energy? | Photosynthesis |
| What branch of science involves the ideas of radiant energy? | physics |
| What branch of science bonds in molecules? | Chemistry |
| What branch of science studies gases in the atmosphere? | Earth science |
| What branch of science studies the Sun? | Astronomy |
| What branch of science studies the Nature of life? | Biology |
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