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Science, Scientists and Discoveries
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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
This was Judas' payment for betraying Jesus.
What is 30 Shekels of Silver?
100
What is missing from this statement? All objects regardless of weight or shape fall at the same rate of speed.
What is "in the absence of air"
100
This planet is named after the Roman God of War because the color reminded scientists of blood.
What is Mars?
100
In the 1950's three Scientists (Bardeen, Cooper and Schrieffer) began work on a hypothesis that they thought would explain superconductivity. Several experiments confirmed their hypothesis and by 1960 it was considered a scientific theory. Their theory was named this.
What is the BCS Theory?
200
An example that contradicts a conclusion
What is a counter-example
200
When Judas saw what was happening to Jesus as a result of his betryal, he returned to the temple and threw the silver pieces on the floor in a fit or rage and remorse. The priests considered the money tainted and did not want to put it back into the treasury so they purchased this field for the burial of strangers.
What was the Potters Field?
200
The conclusions of science are always ______________
What is tentative?
200
This was largely responsible for bringing Science out of the Dark ages.
What was the Christian Worldview?
200
It cannot prove anything. It is not 100% reliable. It must conform to the scientific method.
What are the three limitations of Science?
300
An educated guess
What is a hypothesis?
300
This Scientist proposed that combustion is actually chemical reaction in which the chemicals of the substance that is burning react with the oxygen in the air.
Who was Lavoisier
300
When electricity can pass easily through a substance at a very low temperature without losing energy.
What is superconductivity?
300
Observation, Hypothesis, Theory, Scientific Law. These are all a part of this process.
What is the Scientific Method?
300
In 1682 , Edmund Haley studied this bright object that moved in the night sky - after more study, he found that this object passes by earth roughly every 76 years.
What is Haley's Comet?
400
A Theory that has been tested by and is consistent with generations of data.
What is Scientific Law?
400
Dr. Semmelweis hypothesized that doctors were carrying something deadly from the corpses upon which autopsies were being performed to the patients in his ward. He developed this rule to test this hypothesis.
What is washing hands?
400
Scientist Percival Lowell assumed that the canals on Mars were used for this purpose.
What is water distribution?
400
Regular appearances of Haley's Comet have been found in history as far back as 2,000 years ago. These appearances have made Haley's Comet not just a theory but ___________
What is a scientific Law?
400
This invention of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek's became a popular tool in medical science. It allowed doctors to see the deadly germs that can be transmitted from person to person.
What is a microscope?
500
A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data.
What is a theory?
500
This American Scientist hypothesized that lines seen criss-crossing the surface of Mars were actually canals that had been dug by the inhabitants of the planet.
Who was Percival Lowell?
500
In the late 1600's, German Scientists Johann Becher and Georg Stahl attempted to explain the observation that some things will burn and others will not. They proposed an idea that all burnable substances contain ___________
What is phlogiston (fluh jis' tuhn)
500
In 333 BC Alexander the Great demanded that this island city allow him entry. The King refused - Alexander completely destroyed the mainland part of this City and dumped all it's debris into the ocean to create a bridge to gain access to the part of the city on the island.
What was the City of Tyre
500
This scientist discovered the phenomenon of Superconductivity.
Who was Heike Omnes?