Chapter 1 Biology Notes Review

The goals of science are:

• to explain, predict, and understand natural phenomena

• to create myths and legends

• to promote personal beliefs

• to ignore evidence and facts

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The goals of science are:

• to explain, predict, and understand natural phenomena.

• to create myths and legends.

• to promote personal beliefs over evidence.

• to ignore evidence and rely on opinions.

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According to the passage, is biology just a collection of never-changing facts or unchanging beliefs about the world?

• No, biology is not just a collection of never-changing facts or unchanging beliefs about the world.

• Yes, biology is only a collection of never-changing facts.

• Yes, biology is based on unchanging beliefs about the world.

• Biology never changes and is always the same.

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According to the passage, scientific ideas are open to which of the following?

• Testing

• Discussion

• Revision

• All of the above

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Some scientific 'facts' will never change.

• True

• False

Fill in the blank: Science is an organized way of _______ and analyzing evidence about the natural world.

• gathering

• guessing

• ignoring

• destroying

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Fill in the blank: Science deals only with the ________ world.

• natural

• magical

• imaginary

• virtual

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Which of the following best describes how scientists collect and organize information?

• Randomly, without looking for patterns

• In an orderly way, looking for patterns and connections among events

• Based on personal beliefs

• Without any evidence

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Fill in the blank: Scientists propose explanations that are based on ________, not belief. Then they test those explanations with more ________.

• evidence, evidence

• faith, faith

• opinion, opinion

• assumptions, assumptions

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Fill in the blank: One goal of science is to provide _______ explanations for events in the natural world.

• natural

• magical

• random

• fictional

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