Definitions
An ancient form of paper, made from a plant of the same name
What is Papyrus?
The invention that helped Egyptian doctors easily document information, transport it to other scholars, and store it for future generations.
What is papyrus?
A circle graph is sometimes called a cookie graph.
What is False.
It's called a pie graph.
Science began to progress toward the end of the dark ages mainly because this worldview began to replace the Roman worldview.
What is the Christian Worldview?
This planet is the biggest and it's mostly made of hydrogen.
What is Jupiter?
pg 52
The idea that living organisms can be spontaneously formed from nonliving substances.
What is spontaneous generation?
The instrument Galileo built out of a tube and 2 lenses that allowed him to collect more data about the heavens.
What is a telescope?
A legend gives you information about a graph so you can better read it.
What is true
The part of an experiment to which all other variables will be compared to.
What is control?
This planet is the largest object in the Kuiper Belt
What is Pluto?
pg 76
The systematic study of the natural world through observation and experimentation in order to formulate general laws.
What is science?
This group of people (from what country) was the first to use compasses to navigate.
What is China?
The Chinese were using compasses as early as 1000 years before Christ.
In a bar graph, the x-axis is on the left side and the y-axis is on the bottom
What is False
The x-axis is on the bottom and the y-axis is on the left side.
Give one example of a natural and artificial satellite of Earth.
What are Moon and (telescope, International Space Station, or communications satellite)
The red planet that has robot vehicles driving around it.
What is Mars?
pg 42
Experiments in which information about the test is kept from the participants to reduce bias
What is blind experiment?
Scientific progress depends on 2 things: building on the work of previous scientists and this.
What is government and culture?
A line graph consists of plotting points and connecting the dots.
What is true
What is Nova?
The blue planet
What is Neptune?
page 72
Experiments in which neither the experimenters nor the participants know the objects identities in the setup.
What is double-blind experiments?
A craft used in space exploration.
What is a rover?
Louis Pasteur came up with the process of reflecting which was a method to prevent bacteria from spoiling liquids.
What is false
The correct answer is pasteurization
Egyptian doctors treated open wounds with this to help them heal quickly.
What is moldy bread
(penicillin from the mold killed the bacteria)
This planet is know for it's rings
What is Saturn
pg 60