6-108 Lesson 3 Reading One - Modeling

Which of the following statements are true?

• Models can change when people learn new information.

• There is one correct way to model a phenomenon.

• All models have both advantages and disadvantages.

• None of these statements are true.

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Why do scientists study models?

• Models help to explain things that are difficult to understand or difficult to observe.

• Models make things harder to understand.

• Models make things more complicated.

• Scientists do not use or study models.

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As people made more observations about the shape of Earth...

• They kept their models of the earth the same.

• they changed their models from a globe to a flat map.

• they changed their models from a flat map to a globe.

• they stopped using models of Earth.

Before scientists took pictures from space and were sure that Earth was round like a ball...

• they had to keep testing their model to see if it made sense.

• they just believed what other scientists said.

• they did not believe in models.

• they had to draw pictures of the Earth from space.

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When scientists observe a phenomenon and write notes about it or draw a picture of what they saw it is called...

• a cartoon

• data

• a prediction

• a paragraph