Unit 1_NOS_Mission Review

What is science?

• Knowledge about the natural world

• A process of discovery

• A way to help explain natural events that happen in the universe

• All of these

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.W.8.2D

Which of the following statements is true based on the limitations of science?

• Science can help you make moral decisions

• Science can help me determine what color I should paint my room

• Science only deals with things that can be observed.

• Science can confirm or reject the idea of life on other planets

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RI.8.8

The study of something that claims or appears to be scientific in nature but is not related to science is known as ____________

• Pseudoscience

• Neurobiology

• Anthropology

• Kinesiology 

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CCSS.L.8.4A

How do scientists learn about things in the natural world?

• They make up ideas based on their personal beliefs

• They carry out investigations and perform experiments

• They make non-scientific observations about things in the environment

• They create assumptions based on what they learned in grade school

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CCSS.W.8.1B

What is the difference between a scientific law and scientific theory?

• A scientific theory can graduated to a scientific law.

• A scientific law explains something in the natural world. A scientific theory describes something in the natural world.

• A scientific theory explains something in the natural world. A scientific law describes something in the natural world.

• Those terms can be used interchangeably because they mean the same thing.

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CCSS.RI.8.3

What is bias?

• An educated guess

• A judgment based on an opinion-not a fact.

• A scientific observation that can back up a scientific theory

• A scientific observation that explains something in the natural world

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CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.8

The scientific method always follows the same steps in the same order for every experiment. 

• True

• False

Quantitative data is anything that can be counted or measured (numbers).

Qualitative data is descriptive-things that can be observed but not measured. 

Select the data below that is quantitative about my morning coffee.

• Brown in color

• Caramel smelling

• Hot temperature

• 16 ounces

Scientific Knowledge never changes.  What we thought 100 years ago in the same as what we know today.

• True

• False

How do tools and technology contribute to our understanding of our natural world?

• They help is perform better investigations

• With better tools, we can discover new evidence about the natural world

• Both statements are true

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CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.W.8.1B