Unit A Module 1

Question 1

What is a controlled experiment?

Answer 1

An experiment in which only one variable is tested at a time

Question 2

What is a fact?

Answer 2

Something that competent observers can agree is true

Question 3

What is a hypothesis?

Answer 3

An educated guess or a reasonable explanation. When the hypothesis can be tested by experiment, it qualifies as a scientific hypothesis.

Question 4

What is integrated science?

Answer 4

The study of the five basic natural sciences and the ways they overlap

Question 5

What are the 5 basic natural sciences?

Answer 5

physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and astronomy

Question 6

What is a law?

Answer 6

A scientific hypothesis that has been tested over and over again and has not been disproven; also known as a principle.

Question 7

Pseudoscience

Answer 7

A theory or practice that is considered to be without scientific foundation but purports to use the methods of science

Question 8

Science

Answer 8

An organized body of human knowledge about nature; also, the process of exploring nature and discovering the order within it

Question 9

Scientific method

Answer 9

An orderly method for gaining, organizing and applying new knowledge

Question 10

Technology

Answer 10

The means of solving practical problems by applying the findings of science

Question 11

Theory

Answer 11

A collection of facts and well-tested hypotheses.