Scope and Applications
What are the 3 main sciences?
Biology, chemistry and physics
What's the main language used to prove formulas?
Mathematics
What is the method used to measure temperature?
Use a thermometer
Who was the first man to land on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
The natural sciences limit our ability to make ______
decisions
What do the natural sciences test?
the natural sciences tests hypotheses about observations done in our world
What is the difference between weight and mass?
Mass: The quantity of inertia possessed by an object
Weight: Weight is a quantity representing the force exerted on a particle or object by an acceleration field, particularly the gravitational field of the Earth
what is used to measure pressure?
Pressure Gauge
What did Thomas Edison invent?
The light bulb
What does the discovery of new scientific laws result in?
deepening our understanding of how the universe works
Mostly shared or personal knowledge?
Shared
What's the definition of "metaphor" Ahmad mentioned previously?
x = y
How is most of the information gained in this AOK?
Most information gained in this AOK is through hypothesis-deduction and induction—use of reason and sense perception
When were dinosaurs alive?
10 to 60 million years ago
What Force keeps objects on the earth?
Gravity
How are the natural sciences constructed?
They are solely based on human observation and are constructed using reason and contemplation
Explain the difference between a hypothesis and a theory.
Hypothesis: a proposition made as a basis for reasoning, without any assumption of its truth
Theory: a set of principles on which the practice of an activity is based.
what is the central idea for producing knowledge in the natural sciences?
Classification
Who was Albert the second?
first living thing in space
sciences exist as a set of laws that humans have recorded after ___
experimentation
Who invented penicillin?
How do we use it on a daily basis?
Alexander Fleming
a group of antibiotics
What is the SI unit for Temperature?
Kelvin
How are the three dimensional structures of molecules determined?
x-ray crystallography
When was the theory of relativity first proposed?
1905
what is a physics/chemistry/biology scientist called?
physicist/chemist/biologist