| Question | Answer |
| How is the scientific method and the process of science used to solve problems? | It helps us understand out Natural invironment. |
| 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 |
| Biology | Is the study of living organisms |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Principle of Falsifiability | For a hypothesis to be considered scientific it must be testable-it must, in priciple, be capable of being proven wrong. |
| Fact | A phenomenon about which competent observers can agree. |
| Theory | A synthesis, or collection, of a large body of information that encompasses well-tested hypotheses about certain aspects of natural world. |
| When did modern science begin? | 16th Century |
| Joules | The derived unit of energy in the International system of units. |
| Who used logic & rational thought in a systematic way? | Ancient Greeks |
| What is the cardinal rule in science? | All hypotheses must be testable. They must be capable of being shown wrong. |
| Aristotle claimed what? | That heavy objects naturally fall fasater than light objects? |
| What did Galileo do that changed science forever? | He experimented. |
| Explain the following componant of the scientific method: Observation | Watching and understanding your invironment. |
| 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 |
| pH units | Stands for potential of hydrogen. instrument used to test the acidity or alkalinity of a liquid |
| Geology | The study of the solid and liquid matter that is the earth. |
| Astronomy | One of the oldest sciences. The study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the earths atmosphere. |
| Limitations of science | Science can not determine value. Science can not answer questions of morality. Super-natural |
| Science | The collective findings of humans about nature, and a process of gathering and organizing knowledge about nature. |
| What are the arts concerned with and what do they ask? | Personal interpretation & creative expression. - They ask "Who?" |
| What is religion concerned with and what does it ask? | It addresses the source, purpose, & meaning of it all, and asks "Why?". |
| What does science ask? | How |
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| Explain the following componant of the scientific method: Hypothesis - Periction | An educated guess or a reasonable explanation. |
| What does life science branch into? | Molecular biology, microbiology, and ecology |
| What does the study of science branch into the study of? | Living & non living things (life sciences & physical sciences) |
| Natural Philosophy | Science is the present-day of what used to be called Natural Philosophy, which is the study of unanswered questions about nature. |
| Physics | The study of change, movement or motion thropugh space and time. |
| 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 |
| Kilogram | The unit of mass. Equals the mass of 1 liter of water at 4C. |
| Kelvin | A unit of absolute temperature, one kelvin degree is equal to one celsius degree |
| What does physical science branch into? | Physics, chemistry, earth sciences, & astronomy. |
| Who were the first two men to formalize a parataicular method for doing science? | Galileo Galilei & Francis Bacon. |
| Chemistry | Is concerned with the composition structure and properties of matter as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions. |
| Liter | Unit of volume. |
| Grams | Measures mass, base unit is kilogram |
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