Science
The systematic study of natural events and conditions
What is science?
The basis for scientific explanations
What is empirical evidence?
Observations and measurements that all can observe as well as all of the data that people test to evaluate scientific explanations
What is empirical evidence?
The trait of asking how or why something happens
What is curiosity?
Ideas based on faulty logic and claims that can't be tested
What is pseudoscience?
This is the scientific study of living things
What is biology or life science?
Beliefs or opinions that are not based on explanations that can be tested
What is non-scientific?
This includes the use of specialized tools and instruments to make observations and take measurements.
What is gathering empirical evidence?
Reasoning through information and making conclusions supported by evidence
What is logic?
When a claim is asserted and demands to be proven false instead of claim being asserted and has to be proven true.
What is pseudoscience?
This branch of science includes the study of geology
What is Earth science?
This is what forms when iron, water, and oxygen combine
What is rust?
This means based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.
What is empirical
Applying one's imagination to come up with something clever and original
What is creativity?
These structures in Egypt have had pseudoscientific claims that they were built by space aliens
What are the pyramids?
Chemistry is included in this branch of science that studies matter and energy
What is physical science?
This compound increases the rate of rusting
What is salt?
These devices take photographs that show temperatures of an image
What are thermal cameras?
Not accepting everything you hear or read immediately, but looking for facts and asking questions
What is skepticism?
These controversial injections have been plagued by pseudoscientific claims that they cause autism
What are vaccines?
The need for openness and review is part of this
What is community consensus?
This is what happens if the results of an experiment do not support the scientific explanation
What is reject the scientific explanation?
This volcano erupted in 1981 and has been a focus of study for volcanologists who have used thermal cameras to collect empirical evidence
What is Mount St. Helens?
Setting aside your personal beliefs, emotions, and feelings while evaluating something?
What is objectivity?
This is a pseudoscientific belief that events in the cosmos have an effect on human personalities based on their birthdays as well as life events
What is astrology?