
What is science?
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- Q1How would you define science?Investigating to learn about the unnatural world.Doing experiments to best understand your questions.A way of using evidence to learn about the natural world.10s
- Q2A goal of science would be to.......Explain events in the natural world and make useful predictions.To be able to give 100% certainty that your hypothesis was correct.To prove another persons hypothesis incorrect.10s
- Q3Science is __________ and ____________.none of the abovenatural, unnaturalrepeatable, ever changingfun, interesting10s
- Q4Science cannot solve __________ or _____________ dilemmas.body,thoughtfulmoral, ethicalprevious, future10s
- Q5Does science try to prove or disprove theories?Prove.Disprove.NeitherBoth10s
- Q6The scientific method steps are.......-asking questions -observing -making inferences -testing hypotheses- reading an article in a magazine. - observing other experiments. -testing hypothesis. - only doing if you agree-making a solid guess -communicating with peers -going off previous experiences -only doing if you don't make any mistakes10s
- Q7Science starts with ........data collectionhypothesisinferenceobservation10s
- Q8Define inference -a collection of data.an educated guess.a logical interpretation based on prior knowledge or experience.none of the above10s
- Q9Define hypothesis -solid data collectionall of the abovea proposed scientific explanation for a set of observations – an educated guessworking off of previous experiences10s
- Q10A controlled experiment is.......an experiment that is not repeatablean experiment with multiple variablesan experiment that tests only one variablean experiment that only one person can do10s
- Q11A good experiment must have a .........all of the abovea good partnerinconsistent settingdetailed procedure10s
- Q12independent variable -variable that never changesall of the abovevariable that is observed and that changes in response to the manipulated variablevariable that is deliberately changed10s
- Q13dependent variable -variable that changes based on your partners opinionvariable that is observed and that changes in response to the manipulated variableexperiment depends on datanone of the above10s
- Q14define constant -remains the same; is not changedmust be changed for a good experimentmust be changed for a good experimentremains the same until data shows to change10s
- Q15The Plano Reaper baseball team wanted to run an experiment on movement of the baseball using a high speed camera. Two of the pitchers threw a baseball as they would normally would in a baseball game. The same two pitchers added clear pinetar to the baseball. 10 pitches were thrown with and without the added substance. What is the independent variable of this experiment?10 pitchestwo pitchershigh speed cameraclear pinetar10s