What's Science for?
What is Science
What Science Isn't
Misc. Science
Major Scientific Discoveries
100
A path to understanding everything around us creating a body of knowledge
What is science?
100
Academic disciplines in the natural sciences
What are biology, chemistry, geology, physics, astronomy and oceanography?
100
X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Grimm, Game of Thrones are examples of this area science does not deal with
What is supernatural?
100
Of natural and social science, the oldest and most successful
What is natural science?
100
Scientist responsible for the heliocentric theory of the universe.
Who is Copernicus?
200
The systematic process of investigating questions about the natural and social world to build and test theory
What is scientific method?
200
This human trait is the foundation of science.
What is curiosity?
200
Scientific theories are not ______ or _______.
What are hunches or opinions?
200
These people oversee the production of scientific knowledge, determining what is and is not science.
What is the scientific community?
200
He generated a simple set of mathematical equations, could explain the movement of objects both in space and on Earth.
Who is Issac Newton?
300
A main aim or purpose of science undervalued next to technology; awe
What is discovery?
300
____ and ____ of theory and principles, and not absolute truth are the aims of science
What are verification and falsification?
300
Science is a process of creating knowledge to help us understand the world, not just this commonly believed idea.
What is a body of knowledge?
300
The origin of science
What is philosophy?
300
He proposed the first biological taxonomy.
What is Carl Linnaeus?
400
The benefits of science
What are new scientific discoveries, solving practical problems and creating new real-world applications?
400
Of these, the ones that best describe science: systematic, proof, certainty, rigorous, testable, beliefs
What are systematic, rigorous, testable?
400
Science is not about dictating the best way to live or for society to function, so it is not about ______ and ______.
What is ethical judgement and prescriptive behavior?
400
Two tools in natural and social science studies to collect data
What are observation and experimentation?
400
True or False: All major scientific discoveries we created by male western scholars and scientists.
What is false?
500
This purpose is depicted in "CSI", "Myth Busters", "How do They Do it", and "Bull".
What is how science affects our everyday lives?
500
Like building blocks or Popplets, studies uses this to create scientific knowledge
What are other scientific studies?
500
True or False: Science is free of bias and influence from human interests and societal factors?
What is false?
500
The type of scientific evidence collected in natural and social sciences
What is empirical?
500
One of these two major scientific theories that has the most evidence: gravity or evolution
What is evolution?
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