Science vs. Pseudoscience

As technology continues to improve, our understanding of science improves, because more advanced tools allow us to make better observations of the natural world.

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

Science or Pseudoscience:  Personal bias and the opinion of the scientist.

• Science
• Pseudoscience

Science or Pseudoscience:  Changing the data so that it supports my prediction.

• Science
• Pseudoscience

In order for an explanation to be considered scientific, it must be based on ____________.

• an inference
• a conclusion
• past experience
• evidence

What is pseudoscience?

• A set of beliefs whose conclusions and predictions that is NOT based on observation, objective reasoning, or scientific evidence.

• A set of beliefs whose conclusions and predictions that is based on observation, objective reasoning, or scientific evidence.

Which question can best be investigated by a scientist?

• Should I buy a red shirt or a green shirt?
• Does chocolate milk or plain milk taste better?
• Does a plant need sunlight to grow?
• Which feels softer, cat fur or dog fur?

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Which is not a pseudoscience?

• Internet miracle cures

• Astrology

• Superstitions

• Biology

The word stem pseudo- means:

• false
• true
• understand
• science

Which one the following is NOT a branch of science, but a pseudoscience because it not testable, repeatable and observable by scientific standards. 

• A. astronomy: study of physical objects (such as stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets and nebulae) and processes (such as supernovae explosions, gamma ray bursts, and cosmic microwave background radiation)
• B. physics: the study of properties of matter and energy (mechanics, heat, light and other radiation, sound, electricity, magnetism, and the structure of atoms)
• C. biology: the study of living organisms
• D. astrology: the study of how the positions of the stars and movements of the planets have a supposed influence on events and on the lives and behavior of people

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

If something cannot be observed using the 5 senses, is not testable or repeatable, then it is not science. 

• True
• False