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How is the scientific method and the process of science used to solve problems?   show
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show 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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show Watching and understanding your invironment.  
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show An educated guess or a reasonable explanation.  
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show 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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show 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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show A phenomenon about which competent observers can agree.  
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Theory   show
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show The collective findings of humans about nature, and a process of gathering and organizing knowledge about nature.  
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show 16th Century  
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show Galileo Galilei & Francis Bacon.  
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What is the cardinal rule in science?   show
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show That heavy objects naturally fall fasater than light objects?  
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What did Galileo do that changed science forever?   show
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show Is the study of living organisms  
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show 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   show
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show The study of the solid and liquid matter that is the earth.  
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Astronomy   show
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show 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?   show
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What are the arts concerned with and what do they ask?   show
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show It addresses the source, purpose, & meaning of it all, and asks "Why?".  
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What does science ask?   show
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Technology   show
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Natural Philosophy   show
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What does the study of science branch into the study of?   show
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What does life science branch into?   show
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show Physics, chemistry, earth sciences, & astronomy.  
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show 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?   show
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show The unit of mass. Equals the mass of 1 liter of water at 4C.  
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show A unit of absolute temperature, one kelvin degree is equal to one celsius degree  
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pH units   show
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show The derived unit of energy in the International system of units.  
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show 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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