Chapter 1 & 2
A scientific statement...
The moon is made of green cheese.
The safest way for you to view the sun is with...
pinhole images
An object in mechanical equilibrium is an object...
-At rest -Moving with constant velocity [ All of these ]
Science is a body of knowledge that...
-Describes the order in nature -Condenses knowledge into testable laws [ All of the above ]
When you stand at rest on a pair of bathroom scales, the readings on the scales will always...
Add up to equal your weight
The statement "There are regions beneath the earths crust that will always be beyond the reach of scientific investigation." is a...
Speculation
A sheet of paper which can be withdrawn from under a container of milk without toppling it if the paper is jerked quickly. This best demonstrates that...
The milk carton has inertia
In science, and educated guess is a...
hypothesis
Where Aristotle relied on logic in explaining nature, Galileo relied on...
Experiment
In science, facts...
may change
The synthesis of a large collection of information that contains well tested and verified hypotheses about certain aspects of the world is know as scientific...
Theory
The scientist to first introduce the concept of inertia was...
Galileo
When a scientist is dishonest and reports false information, he or she...
Gets no second chance in the scientific community
A scientific hypothesis may turn out to be right or if may turn out to be wrong. If it's a valid hypothesis, there must be a test for proving it...
Wrong
Of the sciences known as physics, chemistry, and biology, the most basic is...
physics