Lesson 2 Flashcards
(13 cards)
List the fundamental steps of the scientific method.
1) Observation
2) Hypothesis
3) Experimentation
4) Analysis
5) Conclusion
Then use the conclusion to make more hypotheses to test!
Who won the Nobel prize in Chemistry in the year 1970?
Luis Federico Leloir (an Argentine physician and biochemist) for his discovery of the metabolic pathways by which carbohydrates are synthesized and converted into energy in the body
What do people often get wrong about the term “theory”?
That it is just a hypothesis.
It is actually a well-tested idea or set of ideas that has strong evidence from multiple different studies in scientific terms.
What are laws in science?
Laws are very precise, universal statements describing something which will always occur in the physical world.
What usually happens before scientific papers are published?
peer-review
What do scientists use models for?
to help in interpreting data by trying out multiple ways of testing and understanding ideas.
What was the longest ever recorded migration?
96 000km by an Arctic Tern in one year
What is the longest living mammal?
Bowhead whales which live for up to 200 years
What percentage of mammals are nocturnal?
69%
How many known animal species are pollinators?
30 000, including insects, birds, and even mammals
Which country contains at least 9% of all known species?
Thailand
True or false: Asian elephants are more closely related to mammoths than to African elephants.
True
What did they do to a 4500-year old dormant yeast in 2019?
revived it from an ancient Egyptian form of a cooker and made bread from it
