What is Science - Generation Genius 6 - 8

Define science.

• The act of noticing and describing events or process. This can include: sight, smell, hearing. Touch and taste you have to take caution with.

• It's a factor that can change in an experiment.

• It's an organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world.

• It's a proposed, testable explanation for something that happens in nature.

What does observation mean?

• It's an experiment in which all variables have been kept unchanged.

• It's the information that has been recorded during observations; a collection of measurements or observations.

• It's something found by measuring or calculating numbers.

• The act of noticing and describing events or process. This can include: sight, smell, hearing. Touch and taste you have to take caution with.

What can increase our confidence in a scientific claim?

• scientific evidence
• other people agreeing with you
• internet articles
• good reviews

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Which of these can be studied through science?

• unicorns
• mind-reading
• ghosts
• butterflies

What is the most important thing in science?

• evidence
• discoveries
• experiments
• explosions

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Which of these is NOT a practice of science?

• asking questions
• analyzing data
• making claims without evidence
• carrying out investigations

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What happens when scientists find new evidence that does NOT support something they are studying?

• They must use creativity to convince other scientists that the new evidence is wrong.

• They must use creativity to change or adjust their hypotheses to fit the new evidence.

• They must use creativity to find ways to make the new evidence fit their original explanations.

• They must use creativity to ignore new evidence that contradicts their original explanations.

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What happens when new evidence does NOT support a scientific theory?

• The theory will be considered false and will not be used.

• The theory will remain, and the evidence will be discarded.

• The theory will remain, as science is not open to change.

• The theory will either be modified, or rejected.

Scientists use _________________ to visualize problems or ideas.

• models

• pickles

• frogs

• standards

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Science is a way of learning about the ________________ world.

• natural

• supernatural

• ideal

• revolutionary

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