1.1 What Is Science?

What is science?

• A systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge

• A form of art

• A type of literature

• A political ideology

Science is an organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the ________.

• world

• universe

• nature

• environment

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Science deals only with the ________ world.

• physical

• imaginary

• fictional

• mythical

What do scientists do after proposing explanations based on evidence?

• They conduct experiments to test their explanations.

• They publish their findings without further testing.

• They discard their explanations immediately.

• They ignore the evidence and move on.

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Which of the following is a goal of science?

• To change natural laws

• To provide natural explanations for events in the natural world

• To prove absolute truths

• To create new scientific facts

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Despite all of our scientific knowledge, much of nature remains a ________.

• mystery

• fact

• solution

• certainty

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Learning about science means:

• Understanding the natural world

• Memorizing facts

• Ignoring evidence

• Relying on opinions

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What does scientific methodology begin with?

• Observation

• Hypothesis

• Experimentation

• Conclusion

After posing questions, scientists use further observations to make ________, or logical interpretations based on what is already known.

• inferences

• guesses

• assumptions

• predictions

Inference can lead to a ________, or a scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it.

• hypothesis

• theory

• guess

• assumption

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