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| Define the term: counter example |
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| An example that contradicts a conclusion |
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| Define the following term: Hypothesis |
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| An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question |
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| Define the following term: Theory |
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| A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data |
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| Define the following term: Scientific law |
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| A theory that has been tested by and is consistent with generations of data |
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When someone tells you that "science has proven" somethi, what shuld you say |
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| Science cannot prove anything |
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| Does a scientific theory have to make sense |
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| No, a scientific theory has only been tested a little bit. It has not been sufficiently tested yet |
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| A feather and a penny are dropped from the top of a building. Which will hit the ground first? |
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| The penny, it has less air resistance than the feather. |
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A feather and a penny are dropped down a long tube that has no air in it. Which will hit the bottom of the tube first? |
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Both. Without the substance of air there is no air resistance, hence they hit the bottom at the same time. |
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| What was the observation that Halley made to form his hypothesis? |
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| Seeing the bright object, and that other scientists had seen it roughly 76 and 152 years ago. |
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| What was Halley's hypothesis? |
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| That the objects were the same thing and it passed by earth roughly every 76 years. He said it would be seen again in 76 years. The year is 1682 |
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What was the experiment that confirmed Halley's hypothesis |
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| That the object he had seen passed by the earth 76 years later, when he said it would. |
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| Regular appearances of Halley's comet have been found in history as far back as 2,000 years ago. Is the existence of Halley's comet a theory or scientific law? |
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| Scientific law, because it has been proven over years of experiments. |
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| Put the following steps of the scientific method into their proper order. (A) Form a hypothesis (B) Theory is now a law (C) Make observations (D) Hypothesis is now a theory (E) Perform experiments to confirm the hypothesis (F) Perform many experiments over several years |
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| If a hypothesis does not agree with the experiment designed to confirm it, what two choices do you have? |
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| Either to form a new hypothesis or to start over |
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