Module 1
The history of Science
The history of Science
An ancient form of paper, made from a plant with the same name.
What is Papyrus?
An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question. Written as a if then statement.
What is a hypothesis?
An aspect of an experiment that changes during the course of the experiment.
What is an experimental variable?
The study of the Earth's history
What is Geology?
A natural or artificial body orbiting a planet or star
What is a satellite?
The systematic study of the natural world through observation and experimentation in order to formulate general laws.
What is science?
An explanation of the natural world that has been thoroughly tested and is supported by a significant amount of evidence.
What is scientific theory?
A body of water where you cannot sink due to extreme salinity.
What is the dead sea?
3 types of science
What is pure science, applied science and technology
The gaseous layer surrounding Earth or another heavenly body
The idea that living organisms can be spontaneously formed from nonliving substances.
What is spontaneously generate?
An example that contradicts a conclusion
Vertical Line on a graph
What is a y axis
Internal, External and Bibliographic
What are the 3 tests to look at historic text?
Jovial Planets
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
Name 3 Greek Scientists
Who are Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes
Observation and question, background research, hypothesis, experiment, results and conclusion
What is the scientific method?
The variable of part of an experiment to which all others will be compared
What is the control of an experiment?
The process of counting tree rings to determine the age of the tree
What is dendrochronology?
New, waxing, full and waning
What are the phases of the moon?
He thought the planets revolved around the earth.
Who is Ptolemy?
Can not prove anything
What is science?
Takes related information and put it in a visually interesting format
What is an infographic?
Compares the document to other documents that already passed the 3 tests or known archaeological facts.
When Earth is in just the right position between the moon and the sun that casts a shadow on the moon
What is a lunar eclipse?