Methods for Exploring Different Fields of Science

Which of Deeandra's observations is scientifically testable?

• Observation 1

• Observation 2

• Observation 3

• Observation 4

Choose below.

• Models allow you to formulate hypotheses about processes.

• Models allow you to study processes that cannot be duplicated.

• Models are often simplified to help explain complex concepts.

• Models make it possible to duplicate the real thing.

Which of the following is most likely a limitation of a model of the human brain?

• The model does not act exactly like the brain.

• The model does not represent all possible real world cases.

• The model is oversimplified to help explain brain function.

• All of the above.

Technology is essential to science, because it provides instruments and techniques that enable observations of objects and phenomena that are otherwise unobservable due to factors such as quantity, distance, location, size, and speed, but technological solutions have side effects. All of the following are side effects of technology except:

• high cost

• risk of injury

• Technology provides tools for investigations, inquiry, and analysis.

• All of them are correct.

Which of the following is not a method that scientists use in order to solve problems.

• gathering research

• making observations

• constructing models

• following an instinct

Type of scientific investigation used for studying plants and animals in their natural habitat.

Type of scientific investigation that uses a representation of an arrangement of some object or event in the real world.

Type of scientific investigation that uses an imitation of the functioning of a system or process.

Type of Scientific investigation requiring the gathering of information through the senses about the natural world.

Type of scientific investigation carried out under controlled conditions.