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Inductive Reasoning
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NJASK Review Question
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What does Deductive reasoning mean?
a type of thinking that starts with an assumption and then reaches conclusion based on that assumption.
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What does observation mean?
information gathered by the senses or through measurement.
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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.
Many people thought the sun revolved around the earth because the sun appears to move in the sky.
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For centuries people who studied nature were called natural philosophers. in the middle 19th century the word scientist was invented for such people suggest why the name change when it did.
What is as the practice of investigation of the world came more systematic, concerned with emperifical evidence and based in experiment and observation, the title natural philosopher no longer seemed adequite.
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What process do engineers use to determine both the positive and negative effects.
What is A risk benefit analysis.
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What does description mean?
an accurate account of an event or a process.
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What does risk-benefit analysis mean?
a study that examine the risk and benefits that a technology might bring to individual humans, humans society, and tthe natural environment
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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.
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Aristotle claimed that heavy objects fall faster than lighter ones.How would you test this claim.
What is you should hold both objects at the same level and drop them at the same time to see what object will fall faster. Air resistance may make the lighter object fall slower.
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Scientists say that the sun appears to be moving in the sky. This is an example of?
What is an explanation.
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What does an explanation mean?
an account that tells why or how an event or process happened.
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What is the definition of science?
the study of the natural world, with the purpose of detecting its underlying patterns and the rules by which it works.
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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.
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Give one example from the past few centuries in which some kind of authority has influenced scientific research or thought, either positively or negatively.
Newtons discovery of gravity.
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which of the follow is a benefit of wind power.
What is it does not emit hydro-carbons.
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What does Inductive reasoning mean?
the process of reaching conclusion based on observation and the experiment.
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What does society mean?
a group of people that share that shares a set of political, economics, and cultural institutions.
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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.
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What sentence best summarizes why scientific knowledge changes over time.
What is science must explain new observations that challenge existing theories.
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Which of the following best matches the person with there book.
What is Ptolemy- the star messenger.
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What does inference mean?
a conclusion reached by using what we have observed and what we think to be true.
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What does technology mean?
The use of the knowledge gained through scientific investigations to make products that meet the needs and the wants of society.
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Name one scientific discovery that was not possible until the invention of the microscope.
What is a discovery that could not have been possible without a microscope was cells.
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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.
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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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