What is Science?

What is science?

• A) A way of knowing and explaining the natural world

• B) Just a pile of facts

• C) Only about textbooks and test tubes

• D) Only for people in lab coats

• E) Everything

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What drives science?

• Curiosity and a desire to know why

• Memorizing facts

• Trial and Error

• Believing what you're told

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As scientists move from a general hypothesis to a specific prediction in hypothesis testing, they are using ___ reasoning.

• inductive

• deductive

• speculative

• falsification

Which of the following is a rule of science?

• A) Scientific questions & hypotheses must be testable.

• B) Results must be repeatable.

• C) Scientists rely on evidence.

• D) All of the above.

If you say, 'A ghost broke my phone,' it is a scientific explanation.

• True

• False

Fill in the blank: Science depends on results that can be tested over and over again. This means results must be _________.

• repeatable

• supernatural

• a one time thing

• unpredictable

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What does it mean when scientists are described as skeptics?

• They are always negative

• They ask for evidence

• They never believe anything

• They ignore new information

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A hypothesis lacks ___ to support it until it is tested.

• evidence

• opinion

• guesswork

• imagination

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What is the first step in the scientific method?

• Observe

• Conclude

• Experiment

• Hypothesize

Which of the following is an example of a hypothesis?

• Finches had different beaks.

• All species change over time through natural selection.

• Darwin wrote a book.

• Notice something (a pattern, an event, a problem)