Module 1

Question 1

is the systematic body of knowledge.

Answer 1

Science

Question 2

is the practical application of knowledge to facilitate the accomplishment of things and make life easier.

Answer 2

Technology

Question 3

is a group of people living together following certain norms to be in order

Answer 3

society

Question 4

Who is the inventor of dynamite?

Answer 4

Alfred Nobel

Question 5

Toughest organism on earth

Answer 5

Tardigrade

Question 6

All chemical phenomena depended on the action of physical forces which can be determined and measured.

Who said this?

Answer 6

Pierre Eugene Marcelin Berthelot

Question 7

Science came from the Latin word?

Answer 7

Scientia- to know

Question 8

a statement about what is accepted as sufficiently “real” that allows one to take action upon and thereby live life.

Answer 8

Knowledge

Question 9

What are the twomtypes of zknowledge?

Answer 9

Belief and Research Knowledge

Question 10

knowledge about the world is inherent and unique in each human being attained by individual revelation

Answer 10

Belief Knowledge

Question 11

a gathering of knowledge is universal, not just individual revelation, and is based on a protocol to allow one to select between alternative observations.

Answer 11

Research Knowledge

Question 12

What are the requirements of research knowledge?

Answer 12

1. Repeatable observations
2. All hypothesis are falsifiable.
3. involves natural phenomena

Question 13

______ said that temporary explanation (hypothesis) can be tested by acceptable logic, empirical and statistical, to accept or reject the hypothesis.

Answer 13

Karl Popper

Question 14

What are the goals of science?

Answer 14

Understand of phenomena
identify relationships and characteristics
predict summaries and conclusions
derive knowledge and facts

Question 15

is a statement based on research knowledge

Answer 15

fact

Question 16

tentative explanation by the pattern created by two or more facts

Answer 16

hypothesis

Question 17

What are the two approaches to research knowledge?

Answer 17

Formal science
Empirical science

Question 18

deals with objects and observations
NO truth; no right or wrong but there are limitations including but not limited to the availability of equipment to aid the sense

Answer 18

Empirical Science

Question 19

logic and mathematics - the language of science have the same meaning anywhere else in the world
• universal

Answer 19

Formal science

Question 20

What is good science?

Answer 20

eliminates as many variables while entertaining as many alternate interpretations of the observations as possible.

studies the material science
dynamic

Question 21

What is the hallmark of good science?

Answer 21

Doubt

Question 22

disregard to confounding effects

Answer 22

Pseudoscience

Question 23

failure to add new arguments and data with time

Answer 23

Pseudoscience

Question 24

an interpretation of the physical world to which scientists subscribe
changes as anomalies arise and gets replaced as knowledge develops

Answer 24

paradigm shift

Question 25

a set of techniques for investigating phenomena that is generally followed to acquire new knowledge. This is the same process applied to correcting and integrating previous knowledge.

Answer 25

Scientific Method

Question 26

What are the steps of scientific method?

Answer 26

1. Observation 2. Ask Questions or identifiy the problem 3. form a hypothesis 4. conduct an experiment 5. Accept hypothesis or reject hypothesis 6. make a conclusion 7. Publish

Question 27

What are the two types of reasoning?

Answer 27

Deductive and Inductive

Question 28

attempts to explain things, formulation of hypothesis and theory

Answer 28

Deductive Reasoning

Question 29

attempts to test the validity of the hypothesis or theory

Answer 29

Inductive reasoning

Question 30

Who discovered penicillin?

Answer 30

Fleming

Question 31

observed what is present in the environment; e.g., flowers of different colors

Answer 31

Observational investigation

Question 32

will the leaves differ in color if exposed in the sun or put in the shade?

Answer 32

Controlled what if experiment

Question 33

what pigments are present or absent, giving the result of yellowish color? What caused it to do that?

Answer 33

Explanation seeking experiement

Question 34

certain plants will be exposed to the sun, while others are put in the shade. You can then understand what to do when yellow or green leaves are needed

Answer 34

Modeling What if experiment

Question 35

do anything as long as you produce yellow leaves! I don't care how you do it, JUST FIX IT!

Answer 35

Problem solving what-if experiment