Physical Science: Chapter 1: Modeling Our Orderly World

Question 1

study what has happened in the PAST

Answer 1

forensic scientists

Question 2

Forensic scientists:

= collect ________________

Answer 2

evidence

Question 3

Forensic scientists:

• conduct __________________________ using scientific inquiry

Answer 3

investigations

Question 4

Forensic scientists:

• determine what OCCURRED during a __________

Answer 4

crime

Question 5

ANY event apparent to the senses (fact)

Answer 5

phenomenon

Question 6

natural curiosity and desire to learn or to help others

Answer 6

motivation

Question 7

SYSTEMATIC study of the universe to produce observations, inferences, and models; includes products created through this study

Answer 7

science

Question 8

SUGGESTION of past causes for objects or present processes

Answer 8

inference

Question 9

study of human SOCIETIES and RELATIONSHIPS

Answer 9

social science

Question 10

study of the natural world (life, earth, physical, etc.)

Answer 10

natural science

Question 11

study of the COMPOSTION, STRUCTURE, and PROPERTIES of matter; also changes in matter

Answer 11

chemistry

Question 12

the study of MATTER and ENERGY and the INTERACTIONS between them

Answer 12

physics

Question 13

Why is order important?

1. allows ____________________ study of evidence - so obvious is this order that scientists imitate it

Answer 13

systematic

Question 14

Why is order important?

2. allows ______________________ to be made about future events based on observed patterns; law of CAUSE AND EFFECT

Answer 14

predictions

Question 15

Why is order important?

3. principle of ____________________ of nature - natural processes work in reliable, predictable ways

Answer 15

uniformity

Question 16

Why is order important?

4. God is the source of __________

Answer 16

order

Question 17

outlook from which a person INTERPRETS OBSERVATIONS based on their assumptions

Answer 17

worldview