1st Semester Final Review Earth Science 20-21

An opinion is ?

• Someone's scientific view or position

• Someone's subject view or position

• Someone's subject facts and evidence

• Someone's scientific facts and evidence

These two are not subject to bias or opinion

• Interpretation

• data

• opinions

• facts

• analysis

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the outcome of a scientific experiment demonstrating it should ___________________________________________.

• change because of who performed the experiment.

• change regardless of who performed the experiment.

• hold regardless of who performed the experiment.

Is it testable?

Is it limited in scope?

Is it falsifiable? (able to be proved to be false)

are all questions you need to ask when

• framing a question

• framing a hypothesis

• framing a conclusion

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Information is obtained through observations and experimentation. This is true of ?

• unscientific investigations

• science fiction

• scientific investigations

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Scientific ___________ can be used to make predictions

• models

• questions

• methods

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An example of __________________ is observing lava cooling to create a certain type of rock, and then concluding that the older rock of the same type found elsewhere must also have been formed by a lava flow.

• Authoritarianism

• Uniformitarianism

• Humanitarianism

• Disuniformitarianism

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The scientific study of rock formations in the ocean.

• Marine biology

• Marine geology

• Marine chemistry

• Marine astronomy

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A possible explanation for a set of observations or answer to a scientific question is called a _____ .

• prediction

• hypothesis

• theory

• law

The part of the Earth system that includes Earth's solid, rocky, outer layer is the ______.

• hydrosphere

• atmosphere

• biosphere

• lithosphere

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