Scientific Reasoning Test Your Knowledge

Define: Deduction Reasoning

• the inference of particular instances by reference to a general law or principle.

• Rain on the window?

• Reasoning from the general to the specific, in which a conclusion must be true because it’s based on true statement

• action of deducting or subtracting something

Define: Evidence

• Something that helps either prove or disprove a conclusion

• Mr. Neal this is too hard!

• The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.

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Define: Reasoning

• The action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way.

• HUH!!!!

• Something you put on chicken!

• The process of forming conclusions, judgments, or inferences based on facts or other evidence

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Define: Theory

• An idea used to account for a situation or justify a course of action

• A statement that explains a group of facts or phenomena; most accepted theories have been repeatedly tested and can be used to make predictions about nature

• A set of principles on which the practice of an activity is based.

• A supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained

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Define: Induction Reasoning

• The action or process of inducting someone to a position or organization.

• Something that has to do with Science !

• Reasoning that uses specific events or facts to draw more general conclusions

• The process or action of bringing about or giving rise to something.

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Define : Hypothesis

• The stuff that makes plants green!

• Proposition made as a basis for reasoning, without any assumption of its truth

• Supposition or proposed explanation

• A statement that explains a specific fact or phenomenon; a hypothesis is tested in each scientific experiment

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True or False : Deduction doesn’t really lead to new knowledge.

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True or False: Induction or Inductive Reasoning uses a general and board examples to draw conclusions.

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• False

True or False: Deduction or Deductive Reasoning uses more specific details to draw conclusions

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• False

Hypotheses are tested in scientific experiments, and if not proven wrong, they often become the building blocks of_________________