Sci Reason Spring Midterm

Unlike Aristotle, Galileo used experiments, what is something Galileo promoted about experiments?

All ducks are birds. A mallard is a duck. Mallards are birds. What type of reasoning was used?

Which of the following is NOT a lesson that can be learned from Mythbusters?

Which of the following could be a clue that something is pseudoscientific?

"I have gotten A's on all of my tests. I will get an A on this test." What type of reasoning?

What evidence that supported plate tectonic theory relies on measuring the half-life of elements like carbon-14?

Why is the double-blind experiment the gold standard in science?

Alfred Wegener proposed what idea?

What part of biology did Lysenko reject?

How did Trofim Lysenko set back Soviet biology by 20 years?

Galileo got a lot of things right, what is one thing he got wrong?

Having an "open-mind" is what part of the scientific attitude?

Who helped expose Mesmer as a fraud?

What is a characteristic of pseudoscience?

What evidence for plate tectonic theory relies on magnetic rocks moving out and being measured on the ocean floor?

What was a common obstacle the hidden figures women had to overcome?

What experimental variable is typically found on the x axis?

Which of the following could be a clue that something is pseudoscience?

Who proposed that the continents were all one giant supercontinent?

What key piece of evidence did Marie Tharp gather in support of plate tectonics?

To avoid the problems that alchemy had, good science should do what?

Which ACT strategy requires you to plug and play?

A graph shows as ice cream sales go up so does violent crime. What is this an example of?

What part of the experiment is the basis for comparison?

What type of energy is the energy of movement?

Which ACT prep strategy wants you to find the average between two points?

If one variable increases the other decreases...

A good hypothesis should be ________.

What science strategy requires you to find and use the common variable between two graphs?

What scientific idea did Linus Pauling win a nobel prize for?

What is the boiling point of water?

Which ACT prep strategy wants you to look at the number of times data has been collected?

What process (deals with density and heat of magma) that happens in the earth's mantle drives the movement of plates?

Patients of Mesmer likely got better due to what psychological effect?

After getting his own experimental results, Galileo was arrested for promoting what Copernican idea?

Why didn't people accept the idea of continental drift?

This variable DOES NOT depend on what happens to the other variable.

Which locator tells you what to look for?