Unit 1 Assignment - STS 101
Unit 1 Assignment
Chapter 1 Review Questions
DIRECTIONS: Answer all ten questions below. Each question is worth 1 point for a total of 10 for the assignment. Please save your answers in a WORD file with your first and last name (such as MeghanSolomon.doc). Use the “How to submit an assignment” handout to guide you in the process of submitting your completed work online.
1. What is the goal of science?
The goal of science is to understand our physical surroundings on how it works.
2. What are the roles of observation and measurement in the identification of the patterns in nature?
The roles of observation and measurement in the identification of the patterns in nature is observing is when get a sense of how nature behaves and measurements provide a exact description when something something's and how often.
3. Why is mathematics considered the “language of science”?
Mathematics is considered the “language of science” because it allows them to communicate their results in compact form and often as a added benefit allows them to make very precise predictions about expected outcomes of experiment or observations.
4. What are the branches of science? How do they relate to the “web of knowledge”?
The branches of science are Physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, and biology.
They relate to the “web of knowledge” because everything is connected.
5. Describe the steps of the scientific method.
The steps of the scientific method are observation, hypothesis, hypothesis testing, empirical law, and theory.
6. Describe the roles of hypotheses, theories, and predictions in the scientific method.
The roles of hypotheses, theories, and predications in the scientific method are:
Hypotheses is a tentative guess about how the world works, based on a summary of experimental or observational results and phrased so that it can be tested by experimentation.
Prediction is a guess about how a particular system will be heave, followed by observations to see if the
Chapter 1 Review Questions
DIRECTIONS: Answer all ten questions below. Each question is worth 1 point for a total of 10 for the assignment. Please save your answers in a WORD file with your first and last name (such as MeghanSolomon.doc). Use the “How to submit an assignment” handout to guide you in the process of submitting your completed work online.
1. What is the goal of science?
The goal of science is to understand our physical surroundings on how it works.
2. What are the roles of observation and measurement in the identification of the patterns in nature?
The roles of observation and measurement in the identification of the patterns in nature is observing is when get a sense of how nature behaves and measurements provide a exact description when something something's and how often.
3. Why is mathematics considered the “language of science”?
Mathematics is considered the “language of science” because it allows them to communicate their results in compact form and often as a added benefit allows them to make very precise predictions about expected outcomes of experiment or observations.
4. What are the branches of science? How do they relate to the “web of knowledge”?
The branches of science are Physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, and biology.
They relate to the “web of knowledge” because everything is connected.
5. Describe the steps of the scientific method.
The steps of the scientific method are observation, hypothesis, hypothesis testing, empirical law, and theory.
6. Describe the roles of hypotheses, theories, and predictions in the scientific method.
The roles of hypotheses, theories, and predications in the scientific method are:
Hypotheses is a tentative guess about how the world works, based on a summary of experimental or observational results and phrased so that it can be tested by experimentation.
Prediction is a guess about how a particular system will be heave, followed by observations to see if the