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History of Science
Scientific Inquiry
Analyze & Interpret
Applied Science & Technology
Archeology, Geology & Paleontology
100
An endeavor dedicated to the accumulation and classification of observable facts in order to formulate general laws about the natural world.
What is Science?
100
An example that contradicts a conclusion.
What is a counter example?
100
An aspect of an experiment that changes during the course of an experiment.
What is an experimental variable?
100
A devise that either multiplies or redirects a force.
What is a simple machine?
100
A term that encompasses all scientific pursuits related to living organisms.
What is life science?
200
They wanted to turn lead into gold.
What is the main goal of alchemists?
200
An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question
What is a hypothesis?
200
The variable part of the experiment to which all others will be compared.
What is the control of an experiment?
200
A push or pull exerted on an object in an effort to change that object's velocity.
What is force?
200
The study of past human life as revealed by preserved relics.
What is archeology?
300
He was an ancient Egyptian doctor whose medical practices were known throughout the known world.
Who was Imhotep?
300
You need only one counter example to do this.
What does it take to destroy a scientific law?
300
Experiments in which neither the participants nor the people analyzing the results know who is in the control group.
What is a double-blind experiment?
300
The amount by which force or motion is magnified in a simple machine.
What is Mechanical Advantage?
300
The process of counting tree rings to determine the age of a tree.
What is dendrochronolgy?
400
Although he collected an enormous amount of data in support of this system, he was forced to publicly reject it, or else the Roman Catholic church would throw him out of the church.
Why did Galileo recant his belief in the heliocentric system?
400
First you make observations, then you form a hypothesis, then you perform experiments to confirm the hypothesis.
What makes a theory?
400
This is good when you are using it learn something from the experiment.
When is an experimental variable a good thing?
400
In one, the goal is to make something better. In the other, the goal is simply to learn.
What is the difference between applied science and science?
400
The benefit of the doubt is to be given to the document itself, not assigned by the critic to himself.
What is Aristotle's dictum?
500
He developed laws of motion, developed a universal law of gravity, invented calculus, wrote many commentaries on the Bible, showed white light is composed of many different colors, and came up with a new design for telescopes.
Who was Sir Isaac Newton and what are some of his accomplishments?
500
It cannot prove anything. It is not 100% reliable. It must conform to the scientific method
What are the three limitations of science?
500
The data being collected is depending to some extent on the opinions of people.
What is "subjective data"?
500
In order to calculate this you divide the distance from the fulcrum to effort by the distance from the fulcrum to the resistance.
What is the mechanical advantage of a lever?
500
When artifacts are found in rock or earth that is layered, the deeper layers hold the older artifacts.
What is the Principle of Superposition?