What is science!

What is science?!?

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This is a systematically organized body of knowledge on a particular subject.

• Theory

• Science

• Law

• pseudoscience

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Science literally means

• going for a walk

• to know

• educated guesses

• the truth

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Which is not a requirement of science?

• repeatable

• unbiased

• based on natural laws

• people believe it

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We say science is self-correcting which is why experiments must be

• repeatable

• interesting

• falsifiable

• complicated

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Claims that psychics can talk to the dead cannot be part of a theory because they are not

• repeatable

• laws

• falsifiable

• in the cards

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Why is the supernatural not science?

• testable

• challenges theories

• mathematically proven

• outside the laws of nature

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Which of the following is an educated guess?

• hypothesis

• law

• theory

• inference

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It is the best current explanation science has for a phenomenon.

• conclusion

• law

• theory

• hypothesis

• supernatural

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Which of the following is not a theory?

• evolution

• cell

• germ

• women drivers are bad

• big bang

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This term often uses math to describe a phenomenon.

• Law

• theory

• inference

• hypothesis

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Which of the following is not a law?

• gravity

• newtons second law

• E=mc²

• evolution

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The scientific method starts with this.

• question

• hypothesis

• theory

• conclusion

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Because he is the first to have used the scientific method, this person is considered the father of modern science

• Newton

• Einstien

• Plato

• Galileo

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A temperature change of 25 degrees is what type of measurement?

• qualitative

• innacurate

• quantitative

• rounded

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"That woman is tall" is what type of observation?

• Qualitative

• Quantitative

• Wrong

• Unbiased

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A farmer is testing how fertilizer affects plant growth. She has 5 groups with increasing fertilizer. What is the independent variable?

• Growth

• Number of farmers

• Amount of Fertilizer

• Sunshine

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The farmer has a group of plants with NO fertilizer in the experiment, this group is called what?

• Experimental

• Trial

• Farmers

• Control

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You hear an ambulance go by with flashing lights and sirens towards Spirit Mountain. You suspect a person got hurt skiing. You have made a/an

• Inference

• prediction

• conclusion

• theory

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What do scientific laws and theories have in common? (choose the best answer)

• Supported by lots of evidence

• Testable

• Apply to natural phenomena

• All of the others are correct

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What is the best subject?

• Math

• English

• Social studies

• SCIENCE!!!!!