Definitions
Definitions
Deductive Reasoning
Inductive Reasoning
Word Problems
100
A type of thinking that starts with an assumption and then reaches conclusions based on that assumption
What is deductive reasoning.
100
information gathered by the senses or through measurement
What is observation?
100
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 Isaac Newton discussed laws of gravity. This helped scientists today in discovering things about our solar system.
100
Airbags and radiation therapy are examples of risk benefit analysis. Come up with a risk and a benefit of one of the examples.
What is airbags can keep a person from getting injured or killed in a car accident. However, airbags don't work for children since the impact can kill a child.
100
Aristotle claimed that heavy objects fall faster than lighter ones
What is you should drop both objects at the same level and drop them at the same time to see which object falls to the ground first. Air resistance may make the lighter object fall at a slower rate.
200
the process of reaching conclusions based on observations and experiments
What is inductive reasoning?
200
a accurate account of an event or process.
What is description?
200
What did Ptolemy discuss?
What is he discussed the sun, planets, and stars revolve around the Earth.
200
The microscope was invented as the same time as the telescope. Name one scientific discovery that was not possible until the invention of the microscope.
What is microscopic forms such as cells cannot be seen without a microscope.
200
Popular culture often depicts scientists or technologists as having special roles in modern society. Describe one special role that popular culture assumes that scientists or technologists have in modern society.
What is popular culture depicts scientists as "crazy" people that have a lot of knowledge and have the tools to improve human life.
300
Examines the risks and benefits that a technology might bring to humans and the environment
What is risk-benefit analysis?
300
the study the natural world, with the purpose of deducting its underlying patterns and the rules by which it works
What is science?
300
What book did Vesalius write?
What is he wrote On the Fabric of the Human Body.
300
Nicholas Copernicus published On the Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs in 1543. 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 people rejected this claim.
What is many people thought that the sun revolved around the Earth because the sun appeared to move in the sky. Another reason is because people thought that the Earth was the center of the universe. So it was difficult to except the idea that the Earth revolved around the sun.
300
The philosopher Bertrand Russell once said," Everything... that Aristotle said o scientific subjects proved and obstacle to progress." Explain why this is so.
What is Aristotle's writings were treated as the final authority on the work of our natural world. Unfortunately, his ideas were wrong and had to be overturned by scientific knowledge.
400
the use of the knowledge gained through scientific investigations to make products that meet the needs and wants of a society.
What is technology?
400
an account that tells why or how an event or process happens.
What is explanation?
400
Give an example that best summarizes why scientific knowledge changes over time.
What is scientists must explain new observations that challenge existing theories.
400
Airbags and radiation therapy are examples of risk-benefit analysis. Come up with a benefit and a risk of radiation therapy.
What is radiation therapy helps kill cancer cells and treat tumors. However, if you are exposed to too much radiation it can do more damage than help.
400
Engineers need to determine both positive and negative effects of a new technology. What process do engineers use.
What is they use a risk benefit analysis.
500
a group of people that shares a set of political, economic, and culture institutions.
What is society?
500
a conclusion reached by using what we have observed and what we think to be true
What is inference?
500
for centuries people who studied nature were called natural philosophers. In the middle of the 19th century the word scientist was invented for such people. Suggest why the name changed when it did.
What is scientists investigate the natural world to detect its underlying patterns and rules by which it works.
500
Scientists say that the sun appears to move in the sky because the Earth is rotating on its axis. This is an example of what>
What is this is an example of an explanation.
500
engineers perform risk benefit analysis of technologies. Which is a benefit of wind power.
What is it does not emit hydrocarbons.
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