Prentice hall Biology ch1

An organized way of using evidence to learn about the natural world

• Hypothesis

• Science

• theory

• observation

2. Gathering information about events or processes in orderly ways

• theory

• experiment

• observation

• hypothesis

3. Information that is gathered

• Data

• observation

• theory

• hypothesis

4. A proposed scientific explanation for a set of observations

• theory

• hypothesis

• experiment

• data

5. What does science study?

• the natural world

• stuff

• things

• the supernatural world

6. The difference between qualitative and quantitative observation is…

• Qualitative is numeric, quantitative is non numeric

• quantitative is numeric, qualitative is non numeric

• quantitiative is more important than qualitative

• qualitative is more important than quantitative

7. When is a hypothesis accepted?

• When it can not be proven wrong

• when it can not be proven right

• when it is supported by tests experiments

• When people believe it is right in their heart

8. Used rotting meat to prove flies don’t come from rotting meat.

• Pasteur

• Redi

• Darwin

• Aristotle

9. Used a swan neck flask to prove the air doesn’t have special power to make life happen

• Pasteur

• Redi

• Darwin

• Aristotle

10. Theorized that life can arise from non-living things 2000 years ago.

• Pasteur

• Redi

• Darwin

• Aristotle