Nature of Science

Provides an explanation of cells and what we know about them.

Something that can be tested

Are widely accepted by the scientific community

Describes what nature does under certain conditions and will predict what will happen.

Scientific theories do not become scientific laws; they are explanations for natural phenomena based on evidence.

Science always finds the right answer; the answers that scientists and researchers discover never change.

He should be wary of science because it is based on research and evidence, not bias and opinion.

Scientists take each other at their word regarding experimental results, and the public should, too

Scientific law

Scientific Theory

Both a scientific law and theory

Scientific Observations

Joe’s idea is already a scientific law.

Joe’s idea is not supported by scientific evidence.

Joe’s idea is a good guess that can be tested by experiments.

Joe and his uncle are not scientists.

general assumptions of how systems work.

mathematical principles that can be proven true.

large amounts of data collected over time.

observations from within only one scientific discipline.

True

False

Describes what happens in nature

a proposed explaination, starting point of an experiment

Explains why or how something happens in nature

representation of a real event

If plants are grown in different colored light, then red light will grow the tallest.

the law of motion

plastic animal cell

germ theory