1.2 Science In Context Answer Key Pdf

Question: What scientific attitudes help generate new ideas?

Answer: curiosity, skepticism, open-mindedness, and creativity

Question: Curiosity?

Answer: leads to new questions

Question: Skepticism?

Answer: they question existing ideas and hypotheses and refuse to accept explanations without evidence

Question: open-mindedness?

Answer: willing to accept different ideas that may not agree with their that may not agree with their hypothesis

Question: How does technology play a role in science?

Answer: discoveries in one field of science may lead to new technologies. those technologies in turn enable scientists in other fields to ask new questions or to gather data in new ways

Question: How do scientists share their findings with the scientific community?

Answer: by publishing articles that have undergone peer review

Question: Peer Review

Answer: when scientific papers are reviewed by anonymous, independent experts

Question: Why is peer review important?

Answer: publishing peer reviewed articles in scientific journals allows researchers to share ideas and to test and evaluate each others work

Question: What do scientific articles contain?

Answer: contain details about experimenting conditions, controls, data, analysis, and conclusions.

Question: What do peer reviewers look for?

Answer: oversights, unfair influences, fraud, or mistakes in techniques or reasoning