Chapter 1: Day 2: Scientific Method

Question 1

Science

Answer 1

An approach to understand the living world.

Question 2

Science Assumes the Natural World Is?

Answer 2

Consistent and Predicable.

Question 3

Goal of Science

Answer 3

To discover patterns in nature and to use the knowledge to predict.

Question 4

Inquiry

Answer 4

Asking questions for information and explanation of natural phenomena.

Question 5

Scientific Method

Answer 5

A problem solving approach, gather facts through observation, and formulate hypotheses and theories.

Question 6

An Idea Can Become A?

Answer 6

Hypothesis (tentative or untested explanation), Theory (tested and confirmed hypothesis) and Paradigm (a theory that explains a large number of interrelated aspects of the natural world)

Question 7

Steps of Scientific Method

Answer 7

1st Observation, 2nd Question, 3rd Hypothesis, 4th Experiment, 5th Conclusion, 6th Repeat.

Question 8

Pseudoscience

Answer 8

Fake science or where it doesn’t follow the scientific method.

Question 9

Hypothesis

Answer 9

Educated guess, or a guess you make based on information, assumptions, and observations you already know.

Question 10

Hypothesis Answer

Answer 10

It’s tentative to well-framed question. It must be testable, and falsible.

Question 11

Misconception of Hypothesis

Answer 11

Proving the answer by using phrase, “Scientific is proven.”

Question 12

Bias

Answer 12

A favor over something or something consider unfair. A data that support the answer would be wrong.

Question 13

Confirmation Bias

Answer 13

We can interpret the data by confirmation. True science can also find new study.

Question 14

Examples of Confirmation Bias

Answer 14

. Measles vaccine, a study found that it leads to autism.

. Study found that left handers tends to be more creative

Question 15

Republication

Answer 15

You want a lot of data. You will have this multiple studies are done.

Question 16

Skepticism

Answer 16

Asking questions about the truth.

Question 17

Denialism

Answer 17

Choosing to avoid uncomfortable truth.

Question 18

Skepticism or Denialism Recommendation

Answer 18

Skepticism

Question 19

Probability

Answer 19

A chance or likelihood it would happen. They are not random, they are ordered numbers.

Question 20

Scientific Theory

Answer 20

It is a generic, supported by a large body of evidence on comparison of hypothesis. An explanation for why things work or how things happen. Scientists develop theories based on their observations of the world around them.

Question 21

Scientific Law

Answer 21

Generalization about the data. It always have to always because we expect to happen in a particular situation. It describes the relationship between two or more things we can observe in nature under certain conditions.

Question 22

Example of Scientific Law

Answer 22

Newton Law of Motion.

Question 23

Observation

Answer 23

Method of watching, listening, asking questions, documenting, and analyzing the observed words and actions of people as they interact with their surroundings and other people.

Question 24

Inference

Answer 24

A conclusion or opinion reached based on known facts.

Question 25

Examples of Observation

Answer 25

. The light did not come on. I reset the fuses and the light doesn’t come on.
. Tasting the recipes before baking the pie.
. The child did not want to sit in circle time.
. The Redwall Formation in the Grand Canyon is composed primarily of limestone.

Question 26

Examples of Inference

Answer 26

. The electricity may be out. The light bulb may be dead. A fuse must have blown.
. The pie is very good. It has the right recipe it needed.
. The child was having behavioral problems cooperating class activities.

Question 27

Example of Hypothesis

Answer 27

A scientist proposes that a recently discovered large ring-shaped structure is the remains of an ancient meteorite crater.

Question 28

Example of Scientific Theory

Answer 28

Plate tectonics which involves the movement and interaction of large plates have produced earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain ranges.