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Inductive Reasoning/Deductive
Inductive Reasoning/ Deductive
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description
What is an accurate account of an event or a process.
100
observation
What is information gathered by the senses or through measurement
100
For centuries people who studied nature were called natural philosophers. In the mid-nineteenth century, the word scientist was invented for such people. Suggest why the name changed when it did.
As the practice of investigating the world became more systematic, concerned with empirical evidence, and based in experiments and observations, the title Natural Philosopher no longer seems adiquite.
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Inductive reasoning is the process of reaching conclusions based on observations and experiments.
What is inductive reasoning
100
A risk-benefit analysis
Engineers need to determine both both the positive and negative effects of a new technology. What process do engineers use to determine both the positive and the negative effects?
200
explanation
What is an account that tells why or how an event or process happened
200
risk-benifit analysis
What is a study that examines the risks and benifit's that a technology might bring to individual human society and the natural environment
200
Aristotle claimed that heavy objects fall faster than lighter ones. How would you test this claim?
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 object fall at a slower rate.
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Popular Culture (movies, comic books, and so on) often depicts scientists or technologists as having special roles in a modern society. Describe one special role that popular culture assumes that scientists or technologists have in modern society.
Scientists investigate the natural world to detect its underlying pattern and rules by which it works. Technologists use the knowledge gained through scientific investigations to make products that meet the needs of society.
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Science must explain new observations that challenge existing theories.
Which sentence best summarizes why scientific knowledge changes over time?
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Deductive Reasoning
What is a type of thinking that starts with an assumption and then reaches conclusions based on that assumption
300
science
What is the study of the natural world with the purpose of detecting its underlying patterns and the rules by which t works
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Give one example from the past few centuries in which come kind of authority has influenced scientific research or thought, wither positively or negatively.
Newton discovered gravity.
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Microscope was invented around the same time as the telescope. Name on scientific discovery that was not possible until the invention of the microscope.
Examples of inventions that has benefited from Newtons work on gravity are rockets and satellites
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Heavy and light objects fall at the same rates and speed.
What was Aristotle's theory?
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Inductive Reasoning
What is a process of reaching conclusions based on observations and experiments.
400
society
What is a group of people that shares a set of political economic instiutions
400
Nicholas Copernicus, a polish priest and astronomer, published On the Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs in 1543. The book argued that the motions of the planets could be better explained by assuming that Earth was a planet that orbited the Sun. State two reasons why most people rejected this claim.
Many people thought the sun revolved around the earth because the sun appeared to move in the sky. Another reason is because people thought the Earth was the center of the universe so it was difficult to accept the idea that the sun revolved around the Earth.
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The microscope was invented around the same time as the telescope. Name one scientific discovery that was not possible until the invention of the microscope.
Microscopic forms such as cells can not be seen without a microscope.
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an explanation
Scientists say that the sun appears to move in the sky because the Earth is rotating on it's axis. This is an example of...
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Inference
What is a conclusion based on using what we have observed and what we think to be true
500
technology
What is the use of knowledge gained through scientific investigations to meet the needs and wants of a society?
500
Isaac Newton investigated gravity because he was curious about it. Name a technology that has benefited from Newtons work on gravity.
What is Popular Culture depicts scientists and technologists and 'crazy' people that have a lot of knowledge and have the tools to improve human life.
500
Risk-benefit analysis examines the risks Benefit-that a technology might bring to humans and the environment.
List the risks and benefits of the technology that your group chose.
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Aristotle's writings were treated as the final answer and as a result his ideas were wrong.
The philosopher Bertrand Russell once said,"everything...that Aristotle said on scientific subjects proved an obstacle to progress." Explain why this was so.