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