SIA "Science" Quiz

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Physical Sciences

Physics, Chemistry, Geology, and Astronomy.

Science vs. Technology

Science is the pursuit of knowledge and understanding for its own sake whereas technology is the creation of artifacts and systems to meet people's needs.

Social Science

Study of human behavior and society

Natural Science

Study of the natural world

Knowledge of what science is, what it can and cannot do, and how is works, is important for all educated people.

True

Science can be done poorly.

True

Science can be influenced by the race, gender, nationality, or religion of the scientists.

True

Science can study and explain events that happened millions of years ago.

True

Science is primarily concerned with understanding how the natural world works.

True

Science requires a lot of creative activity.

True

Science typically provides only temporary answers to questions.

True

Scientists can believe in God or a supernatural being and still do good science.

True

Scientists have observed that nature apparently follows the same "rules" throughout the universe.

True

Scientists often try to test or disprove possible explanations.

True

Scientific Theory

An integrated conceptual framework for reasoning about a class of phenomena, which is able to coordinate existing facts and laws and sometimes provide predictions of new ones. In contrast to a law, it tells you why something happens.

Life Sciences

Biology and Ecology

A "hypothesis" is just an educated guess about anything.

False

A scientific fact is absolute, fixed, permanent.

False

A scientific theory is merely guess.

False

All scientific problems must be studied with The Scientific Method.

False

Any study done carefully and based on observation is scientific.

False

Anything done scientifically is always accurate and reliable.

False

Astrology (predicting your future from the arrangement of stars and planets) is a science.

False

Disagreement between scientists is one of the weaknesses of science.

False

Modern scientific experiments usually involve trying something just to see what will happen, without predicting a likely result.

False

Most engineers and medical doctors are actually scientists.

False

Science can solve any problem or answer any question.

False

Science can use supernatural explanations if necessary.

False

Science is most concerned with collecting facts.

False

Science is primarily a search for truth.

False

Scientists have solved most of the major mysteries of nature.

False

Examples of Natural Science

- Biology - Chemistry - Physics - Earth Science (breaks into Geology and Ecology) - Astronomy

Examples of Social Science

- Psychology - Sociology - Anthropology - Behavioral Science - Political Science - Economics

Scientific Fact

A controlled, repeatable and/or rigorously verified observation.

Scientific Law

A descriptive generalization about how some aspect of the natural world behaves under stated circumstances. It is something you can observe time after time. Furthermore, it describes things (usually through equations), but it does not explain why they occur.


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