ET -- Scientific Analysis

Which of the following questions cannot be answered by science?

• What is the age of planet Earth?

• What is the maximum speed of a cheetah?

• Are humans entitled to use all the natural resources on Earth?

• What is the boiling point of water on Venus?

Which of these is a more reliable explanation of how the physical world works?

• Theory

• Hypothesis

What is the purpose of calculating the average from a data set?

• to support the hypothesis

• to use logic in your analysis

• to critique the data

• to better estimate the true value

To question and test scientific knowledge, usually previously held knowledge.

• average

• critique

• uncertainty

• hypothesis

To intellectually take apart a process or system

• analyze

• average

• observation

• theorize

Scientific analysis takes a complex phenomenon and breaks it down into understandable parts that can each be ________.

• critiqued

• randomized

• explained

• averaged

How can a scientific explanation be analyzed?

• by relying on your personal beliefs

• by taking only 1 measurement

• by recording data in an organized way

• by logic and by experimentation

To determine whether any differences in measurement are real or result from random errors, you must know the __________.

• results

• hypothesis

• analysis

• uncertainty