DEFENITIONS
DEFENITIONS
DEDUCTIVE REASONING
inductive Reasoning
NJASK Review Question
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a type of thinking that starts with an assumption and then reaches conclusion based on that assumption.
What is Deductive Reasoning
100
information gathered by the sense or throughout measurments
What is Observation
100
For centuries people who studied nature were called natural philosophers in the mid 19th century the word scientist was invented for such people, suggest when the name changed when it did.
What is as the prctice of investing the world became more systemati, concerned with empirical evidence and based in experiment and overbation the tittle nautral philosophers no longer seems adequate.
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The book argued that the motions of the planets could be better explained by assuming that Earth was a planet that orbited the sun. State two reasons why most people rejected the claim.
What is Many people thought the sun revolved around the earth because the sun appears to move in the sky.
100
What process do engineers use to determine both the positive and negative effects.
What is A risk benefit analysis.
200
an accurate account of an event or a process
What is Description
200
a study that examines the risk and benefits that a technology might bring to individual humans, human society, and the natural environment.
What is Risk-Benefit Analysis
200
aristotle claimed that heavy objects fall faster than lighter ones. how would you test this claim
What is "Heavier things fall faster, the speed being proportional to the weight"
200
Nicholas Copernicus's book argued that the motions of the planets could be better explained by assuming Earth was a planet that orbited the sun. State why most rejected this claim.
What is many people thought that the sun revolved around the Earth because the sun appears to move in the sky. another reason is because people thought the Earth was the center of the universe so it was difficult to accept the idea that the sun revolved around the Earth.
200
Scientists say that the sun appears to be moving in the sky. This is an example of?
What is is an explanation.
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an account that tells why or how an event or process happened
What is Explanation
300
the study of the natural world with the purpose of detecting underlined patterns and the rules by which it works.
What is Science
300
give one example from the past few centuries in which some kind of authority has influenced scientific research or thought either positively or negatively.
What is Newtons discovery of gravity.
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Describe one special role that popular culture assumes that scientists and technologists have in modern society.
What is , scientists investigate the world to detect its underlying patterns and rules by which it works. Technologists use the knowledge gained through scientific investigation to make products that meet the needs of a society.
300
which of the follow is a benefit of wind power.
What is What is it does not emit hydro-carbons.
400
the process of reaching conclusion based on observations and experimants
What is Inductive Reasoning
400
a group of people that shares a set of political economic and cultural institutions
What is Society
400
What sentence best summarizes why scientific knowledge changes over time.
What is science must explain new observations that challenge existing theories.
400
Isaac Newton investigated gravity because he was curious about it. Name a technology that has benefited from Newtons work on gravity.
What is example of inventions that has benefited from Newtons work on gravity are rockets and satellites.
400
Which of the following best matches the person with there book.
What is Ptolemy- the star messenger.
500
a conclusion reached by using what we have observed and what we think to be true
What is Inference
500
the use of knowledge gained through scientific investigations to make products that meet the needs and the wants of society
What is Technology
500
Which of the following best matches the person with his idea.
What is Aristotle- heavy and light objects fall at the same rate of speed.
500
Name one scientific discovery that was not possible until the invention of the microscope.
What is discovery that could not have been possible without a microscope was cells.
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The philospher betrand russell once said everything that Aristotal said on scientific subjects proved an obstical. Explain this.
What is Aristals writings where treated s the final answer he was wrong.
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