Characteristics of Science - PRACTICE!

Why did Dr. Miller replicate Dr. Joseph's experiment?

• to help him guess a claim

• to help him lie about his data

• to ensure his findings were accurate

Why is science durable?

• Scientists never change their minds

• Scientists never question one another

• Science can withstand change and modification

Science is unique from other ways of knowing and thinking because it is based on

• empirical data

• Feelings

• Election voting

• superstitions

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Check all that apply in describing scientific knowledge and findings

• science is based on emotions

• scientific knowledge can be modified

• what we currently know can be falsified by other scientists with new knowledge

• Scientific experiments must be replicable

• Scientific ideas are testable

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Select all possible inferences about this fighting behavior

• They are clashing heads

• They are fighting over a mate

• They are fighting over habitat space

• They are fighting over food

• One is lower to the ground than the other

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True or False: Scientists can make different inferences based on having different life experiences.

• True

• False

Why do scientists run multiple trials?

• To ensure accuracy in their findings

• To help them make a good guess about their work

• To prevent other scientists from replicating their work

• If they run enough trials, they will get the results they were hoping for.

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When we gather information about the world using our senses, we are making a(n)

• guess

• opinion

• inference

• observation

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When we discard and replace scientific knowledge with new ideas, it shows us that scientific knowledge is...

• Rigid and never changes

• Cannot be modified

• Can be discarded and replaced with new knowledge

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Fill is the word that best completes this sentence: Every scientific finding ________ be falsified.

• can

• must

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