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| What is a proposed scientific explanation for a set of observations? |
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| What is the belief that only living things can produce called? |
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| Which French scientist proved that microbes(bacteria) could not spontaneously generate using the "swan-necked flask experiment?" |
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| What is the bending of light as it passes through an object called? |
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| What are the eleven attributes of all living things? |
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-movement
-growth
-reproduction
-comes from similar preexisting life
-similar chemical make up
-made of cells
-irritability
-requires energy
-maintains a high level of organization
-faces death
-adapts to its environment |
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| What does the word science come from? |
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| the Latin word meaning "to know" |
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| What does the Latin root 'Bios' mean? |
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| What does the Latin root 'logos' mean? |
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| What does the Latin root 'Micro' mean? |
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| What does the Latin root 'Scope' mean? |
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| What does the Latin root 'Milli' mean? |
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| the man who developed a vaccine fro small pox |
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| the man whose experiment showed that maggots do not spontaneously generate from meat |
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| Who was Anton van Leeunwenhoek? |
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| the "father of microscopy" |
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| Who was Alexander Fleming? |
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| the man who discovered penicillin |
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| How is a theory different than a hypothesis? |
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| a hypothesis is an untested, possible explanation, while a theory is a tested explanation that unifies observations and hypotheses |
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| an organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world |
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| What can science tell us? |
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-how to cure diseases
- how to get a satellite in orbit
-a lot about the natural world, and how the world works |
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| What is the 'scientific method' and it's uses? |
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| it involves observing, asking questions, forming hypotheses, and testing with experiments. it;s used for explaining a scientific phenomenon. |
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| Why is it important that control groups and experimental groups be large? |
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| so that flukes can be ruled out |
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| Why is it important for a hypothesis to be testable? |
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| because without the ability to be tested, there is no way of knowing whether or not it its true |
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| What scientific attitudes help scientists in exploration? |
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| it is important to be as scientifically unbiased as possible when researching |
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| Why is skepticism good in science? |
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| because without skepticism, scientists don't ask questions. which leads to the lack of new advancements |
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| What is an independent variable? |
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| the variable that is deliberately changed in an experiment |
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| What is a dependent variable? |
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| the variable that responds to the independent variable |
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| the ability to keep your body temperature level and constant at all times |
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| What is Deductive Reasoning? |
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| reasoning that begins by assuming general principles and then develops specific conclusions |
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| What is Qualitative data? |
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| data that is descriptive and involves characteristics that cannot be counted |
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| What is Quantitative data? |
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| numbers that are obtained by counting or measuring in an experiment |
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| a signal to which an organism responds |
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| when an organism adapts to its environment |
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| What is an Electron Microscope? |
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| a microscope that beam electrons instead of light to magnify up to 250,000 x |
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| How many lens does a simple microscope have? |
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| How many lens does a compound light microscope have? |
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| bends light to make an image larger |
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| What does an electron microscope require? |
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| it requires the subject to be in a vacuum |
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