the type of thinking that starts with the assumption and then reaches conclusions based on that assumption.
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What is the definition of observations?
information gathered by the senses or through measurement.
100
State two reasons why most people rejected this claim.
Many people thought that the sun revolve around the Earth because the sun appears to move in the sky. Another reason is because people thought the Earth was the center of the universe so it was hard to accept the idea that the sun revolved around the Earth.
100
Suggest why the name changed when it did.
In general you have hydroge makes up 34% of the center of the suns car. Helium makes up 64% and other make up 2%.
100
What process do engineers use to determine both the positive and negative effects?
a risk-benefit analysis
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What is the definition of inductive reasoning?
the process of reaching conclusions based on observations and experiment.
200
What is the definition of risk benefit analyst?
a study that examines the risks and benefits that a technology might bring to individual humans, human society, and the natural environment.
200
Describe one special role that popular culture assumes scientists or technologists have in modern society.
Scientists investigate the world to detect its underlying patterns and rules by which it works. Technologists use the knowledge gained through scientific investigations to make products that meet the needs of a society.
200
How would you test this claim?
I would test this claim by getting an object that is heavier and then one that is lighter and see which one goes faster.
200
Scientists say that the Sun appears to move in the sky because the Earth is rotating on its axis. What is this an example of?
explanation
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what is the definition of description?
An accurate account of an event or a process.
300
What is the definition of science?
the study of the natural world, the purpose of detecting its underlined patterns and the rules by which it works
300
Name a technology that has benefited Newton's work on gravity.
Popular culture depicts scientists and technologists as "crazy" people that have a lot of knowledge and have the tools to improve human life.
300
Give one example from the past few centuries in which some kind of authority has influenced scientific research or thought, either positively or negatively.
Newtons discovered gravity.
300
Summarize why scientific knowledge changes over time.
Science must explain new observations that challenge existing theories.
400
What is the definition of explanation?
An account that tells why or how an event or process happened
400
what is the definition of society
a group of people that shares a set of political
400
Name a technology that has benefited from Newton's work on gravity.
Examples of inventions that has benefited from Newton's work on gravity one rockets and satellites.
400
Name a technology that has benefited from Newton's work on gravity.
Many philosophers used deductive reasoning and their conclusions were incorrect.
400
It doesn't emit hydrocarbons.
What is a benefit of wind power?
500
what is the definition of inference?
a conclusion reached by using what we have observed and what we think to be true.
500
what is the definition of technology
The use of knowledge gained through scientific investigations to make products that meet the need and wants of a society.
500
Name one scientific discovery that was not possible until the invention pf the microscope.
A risk-benefit analysis examines the risks and benefits that a technology that might bring to humans and the environment.
500
Name one scientific discovery that was not possible until the invention of the microscope.
Many people thought that the sun revolved around the Earth because the sun appears to move in the sky. Another reason us because people thought that the Earth was the center of the universe so it was difficult to accept the idea that the sun revolved around the Earth.
500
What was Aristotle's idea?
Aristotle- heavy and light objects fall at the same rates of speed