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Flashcards by Livia Cerna, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Livia Cerna
about 4 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Science | a purposeful study of our environment in order to understand how it works |
| Astronomy | the study of the stars, was a common study for many civilizations, including American, Mesopotamian, Indian, and Egyptian |
| Greek philosophy | the earliest step into what we recognize as science |
| Thales of Miletus | -Believed water was building block of everything -First to say that the universe was ordered. -Believed that everything worked together for a greater good |
| Aglaonike | -Earliest women philosophers. -Was considered a sorceress or enchantress because she was able to predict when the moon would disappear (in an eclipse) |
| Copernicus | -Stated that the earth orbits the sun, instead of the other way around |
| Sir Isaac Newton | -Developed the theory of gravity, late 1600's to early 1700's |
| Darwin | -Developed the theory of evolution |
| Antoine Lavoisier & Marie-Anne Paulze | Developed the idea of atoms and the periodic table |
| Modern Science | Generally refers to scientific study from the last 200 years |
| Statistics | Practice of collecting and analyzing data in large quantities -can tell you how likely it is that your data is coincidental |
| peer review | where a paper submitted to be published is looked over and critiqued by scientists. If a paper does not successfully make it through the peer review process it will not be published, and since scientists can be highly critical of each other's work, this filters out a lot of flawed research |
| model | -Way of representing a feature of the world in a simple, understandable way -can be a literal, physical model, a diagram, or description of a simplified version of the world |
| law | basic statement about the universe based on lots of experiments and observations. Laws can be written words or mathematical equations, or some combination |
| STEM | science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. |
| Problems with science and the mass media | -tendency to sensationalize, failing to report nuance in scientific ideas -failure to accurately discuss surety -popularizing ideas that aren't yet confirmed |
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