Science vs Pseudoscience
Scientific Method
Experiments
Themes of Biology
Theories and Laws
100
This area of study is two things: a process and a body of knowledge.
What is Science.
100
The part of the scientific method that is a testable explanation of an observation.
What is a hypothesis?
100
The observations and measurements collected and analyzed during an experiment.
What is the data.
100
The study of life.
What is Biology.
100
An explanation of a broad set of observations or events.
What is a Theory?
200
Science as a Process is referred to as this step-by-step method for solving problems.
What is the Scientific Method?
200
The summary of the research, including a statement about whether the hypothesis is correct or not.
What is the Summary.
200
The variable that is measured or observed by the researcher.
What is the dependent variable.
200
When living things/organisms make more of their own kind.
What is reproduction.
200
These are observable and universal.
What is a Scientific Law.
300
Homeopathy, Parapsychology, and Astrology
What are examples of Pseudoscience.
300
All scientific research begins with one of these.
What is a question or a problem.
300
The group in an experiment that remains normal or unchanged.
What is the control group?
300
The energy that drives metabolism comes from this.
What is Food.
300
This changes as a result of new evidence that adds to or contradicts the original evidence.
What is a Scientific Theory?
400
Is based on beliefs and often looks like science but is not.
What is Pseudoscience.
400
Scientists do this as part of the scientific method to make sure their results are correct and consistently the same.
What is retesting the hypothesis?
400
The variable that is changed or controlled by the researcher.
What is independent variable.
400
Children resembling their parents is a result of this characteristic of living things.
What is heredity?
400
A unifying explanation of a broad set of observations.
What is a Scientific Theory?
500
The key characteristic of science.
What is use of the scientific method.
500
The part of the scientific method that is used to test the hypothesis.
What is the experiment?
500
The group in an experiment in which the independent variable is changed.
What is the experimental group.
500
A group of genetically similar organisms.
What is a species?
500
Describes a single event.
What is a Scientific Law.
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