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deductive reasoning
inductive reasoning
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a type of thinking that starts with an assumption and then reaches conclusions.
What is deductive reasoning?
100
information gathered by the senses or through measurement.
What is an observation?
100
for centuries, people who studied nature, where called natural philosophers, in the mid nineteenth century, the word scientist was invented for such people. suggest why the name changed when it did.
What is as the practice of investigating the world became more systematic concerned with imperical edvidence , and based in expiriment an observation the title "natural philosopher" no longer seems adequate.
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the process of reaching conclusions based on observations and experiments.
What is inductive reasoning?
100
what process do engineers use to determine both the positive and negative effects.
What is a risk benefit analysis
200
an accurate account of an event.
What is a description?
200
a study that examines the risks and benefits that a technology might bring to individual humans, human society, and the natural environment.
What is risk-benefit analysis
200
Airostotle claimed that heavy objects fall faster than lighter ones. how would you test this claim
What is you should hold 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
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state 2 reasons why most people rejected this claim.
What is many people thought that the sun revolved around the earth because the sun appears to move in the sky. another reasons is because people thought earth was the center of the universe.
200
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 is an explanation
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an account that tells why or how an event or process happened.
What is an explanation?
300
The study of the natural world with the purpose of detecting its underlying patterns and rules by which it works.
What is science?
300
Give one example from the past few centuries in which some kind of athority has influenced scientific research or thought, either positively or negatively
What is many philosiphers used deductive reasoning and their conclusions were innocent.
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describe one special role that popular culture assumes that scientists or technologists have in modern society.
What is scientists investigate our natural world to detect its underlying patterns and rules by which it works. Technologists use the knowledge given through scientific investigations to make products that meet the needs of a society.
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which sentence best summarizes why scientific knowledge changes over time
What is As natural laws change, scientific knowledge must change with them.
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it is a process of reaching conclusions based on an observation and expiriment
What is inductive reasoning?
400
a group of people that shares a set of political, economical, and cultural institutions.
What is society?
400
who discovered gravity
What is isaic newton
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Name a technology that has benefited from Newton's work on gravity.
What is examples of inventions that have benefited from newtons work on gravity are rockets and satelittes.
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engineers perform risk-benefit-analysis of technologies. which of the following is a benefit of wind power
What is it does not emit hydrocarbons
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a conclusion reached by using what we have observed and what we think to be true.
What is an inference?
500
the use of the knowledge gained throughout scientific investigations to make products that meet the needs and the wants of society.
What is technology?
500
how many laws does isaic newton have.
What is 3 laws
500
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.
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which of the following correctly matches the person with his idea
What is Galileo-a light object falls more slowly than a heavy one.