Ch. 2 Question and answers 100% correct
Science is a (blank), not a (blank) - correct answer process, not a result
Experimentation is a step in the... - correct answer Scientific method
The first step in the scientific method is to... - correct answer Develop a hypothesis
Scienti...
Why do scientists avoid saying that a hypothesis or theory is "proven"? -
correct answer ✔Usually not all variables can be controlled.
What is the difference between a deduction and a hypothesis? - correct
answer ✔A deduction is a conclusion, whereas a hypothesis is a preliminary
explanation.
According to Aristotle, ________ are the apex of the "Great Chain of Being." -
correct answer ✔humans
Aristotle believed in the "immutability of species," according to which species
__________. - correct answer ✔are fixed and unchanging
During the Middle Ages, most people believed that the Earth _______. -
correct answer ✔was unchanged since its formation
, The dominant paradigm for the natural world during the Middle Ages was
based on __________. - correct answer ✔theology
How did Renaissance thinkers such as Galileo Galilei contribute to the
progression of science? - correct answer ✔They performed research that
laid a foundation for an academic discipline devoted to the scientific
understanding of the human condition.
With the circumnavigation of the globe, Renaissance scholars developed a
strong sense of __________. - correct answer ✔biological and cultural
variation
The main contribution of Renaissance natural scientists and artists like
Leonardo da Vinci and Andreas Vesalius was their __________. - correct
answer ✔anatomical drawings
What did Malthus observe relative to populations in the natural world? -
correct answer ✔Populations are always exponentially increasing in size.
What was one possible reason evolutionary thought remained stifled in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? - correct answer ✔Naturalists still
tried to fit their observations of the natural world into Church doctrine.
Which of the following data sources did James Ussher use to calculate the
age of the Earth? - correct answer ✔the Old Testament of the Bible
Which of the following was the focus of much investigation in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries? - correct answer ✔classification
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