Apologia General Science Module 2

Question 1

What was Dr. Semmelweis experiment?

Accepted Answer

doctors washed their hands before seeing patients

Question 2

Scientific knowledge is a subjective collection of explanations about our world based on observed or predicted phenomena

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

Which one of the following statements about science is NOT true?

Accepted Answer

A scientific law can never be overthrown.

Question 4

What does the scientific method start with?

Accepted Answer

observation

Question 5

Operational science uses observable, repeatable experiments to try to discover truth.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

T or F: In the absence of air resistance, all objects fall at the same rate.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

What was observed on Mars by Schiaparelli and Lowell?

Accepted Answer

all of these

Question 8

Scientists might make generalizations beyond the facts that they are observing which can lead to mistakes.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

T or F: More powerful telescopes showed that Schiaparelli and Lowell were correct.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 10

Scientists can make the mistake of assuming that science knows more than it actually does.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

What is the fifth step of the scientific method?

Accepted Answer

analyze results and draw conclusions

Question 12

What is the third step of the scientific method?

Accepted Answer

hypothesis

Question 13

T or F: Dr. Semmelweis's results were greatly appreciated and accepted immediately.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 14

T or F: Scientific laws that have stood for hundreds of years are always true.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

T or F: The work of Schiaparelli and Lowell became a theory because of all the research.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 16

T or F: If the data is inconsistent with the hypothesis, the hypothesis is accepted.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 17

What did Dr. Semmelweis observe in his hospital ward?

Accepted Answer

his patients were dying faster than in other wards

Question 18

What is the last step of the scientific method?

Accepted Answer

scientific law

Question 19

Different conclusions come from interpreting the data through the lens of what they believe about the world.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

What is air resistance?

Accepted Answer

forces that slows down an object while it falls

Question 21

What are the limitations of science?

Accepted Answer

all of these

Question 22

What can science do?

Accepted Answer

all of these

Question 23

An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question

Accepted Answer

hypothesis

Question 24

What is a counter example?

Accepted Answer

an example that contradicts a conclusion

Question 25

What is the sixth step of the scientific method?

Accepted Answer

theory

Question 26

What good came from Lowell's study of Mars?

Accepted Answer

an observatory in Arizona that discovered Pluto

Question 27

T or F: There are a few examples of how scientific method has to lead to incorrect conclusions.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 28

What were actually collections of dust from windstorms?

Accepted Answer

blue-green splotches

Question 29

What is the second step of the scientific method?

Accepted Answer

background research

Question 30

A description of a natural phenomenon or principle that is supported by a significant amount of evidence

Accepted Answer

scientific law

Question 31

An explanation of the natural world that has been thoroughly tested and is supported by a significant amount of evidence

Accepted Answer

theory

Question 32

T or F: Scientists collect data by doing research and performing experiments.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 33

What was Dr. Semmelweis hypothesis?

Accepted Answer

doctors carrying something from corpses to patients

Question 34

What did you discover from experiments 2.1 and 2.2?

Accepted Answer

shape and weight have something to do with how objects falls

Question 35

What is science not?

Accepted Answer

a way to prove something

Question 36

What is the fourth step of the scientific method?

Accepted Answer

test hypothesis with experiment

Question 37

Which are misuses of science?

Accepted Answer

all of these

Question 38

T or F: Science can be used to draw reasonable reliable conclusions.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 39

The confusion caused by different data interpretation is science versus religion.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 40

Historical science relies on relics from the past and historical records to try to discover truth.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 41

The tendency of individual water molecules to stay together

Accepted Answer

surface tension

Question 42

What were Dr. Semmelweis's results?

Accepted Answer

death rate decreased greatly

Question 43

T or F: The scientific method cannot be applied to any subject.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 44

T or F: A single counter example can destroy any conclusion.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 45

What were actually optical illusions caused by poor optics?

Accepted Answer

canals

Apologia General Science Module 2

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Apologia General Science Module 2

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