Science
What's the last step of the Scientific Method?
Theory becomes a law
The idea that living organisms can be spontaneously formed from non-living substances.
What is spontaneous generation?
Which scientist championed the idea of spontaneous generation?
Aristotle
The ability of a liquid's surface to resist a force applied to it due to the attraction between the liquid's molecules.
Surface tension
In the absence of air, all objects, regardless of weight or shape, do what?
Fall at the same rate
We support a scientific idea based only on the ________ (vs who agrees with it or not).
Evidence
What is the variable or part of the experiment to which all others can be compared?
The control.
Which scientist proposed the theory of Evolution?
Darwin
Placebo definition:
A fake pill made of sugar that looks identical to pills being tested
Definition of a hypothesis that's been tested with a significant amount of data.
Theory
How do you answer "The science is settled..."?
Science can never prove anything and/or it only takes one counter-example to turn over a theory.
Experiment in which neither the participants nor the people analyzing the results know who is in the control group.
Double-blind
Which scientist laid down the laws of motion, developed the law of universal gravity and invented calculus?
Sir Isaac Newton
Data that depend to some extent on a person's opinion.
Subjective
What caused the color changes and the new substance which inflated the balloon in experiment 1.3?
Chemical reactions
What important concept did alchemists not understand? (Lab 1.3)
New matter can't be formed--only new substances
Is Halley's Comet a theory or a scientific law? Why?
Scientific law. There have been generations of data supporting it (it's regularly appeared for 2,000 years).
Which scientist is best known for his model of the atom?
Bohr
Should I give GenSci-ade as a single blind or double blind experiment? Why?
Double blind, because I'm biased and could skew the results
Why do people float in the Dead Sea?
The saltwater is denser than they are.
Scientific progress depends on what 3 things?
Scientists, government, and culture
What was the BCS Theory which was disproven?
It's impossible to have high temperature superconductors.
Which scientist determined how traits are passed on during reproduction?
Mendel
What is the horizontal axis of a graph called?
The x-axis
Why should you never base your worldview (like what you believe about the Bible) on science?
Because its conclusions are always tentative.