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    The document discusses the scientific method and key scientific concepts. It provides a quiz with questions about the roles of scientists, definitions of theories and hypotheses, the sequence of the scientific method, and the tentative nature of scientific knowledge. Scientists function as authorities on the natural world and society's eyes and ears on nature. A theory must be supported by evidence and can explain many facts, while a hypothesis is a tentative explanation that requires more investigation.

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    The document discusses the scientific method and key scientific concepts. It provides a quiz with questions about the roles of scientists, definitions of theories and hypotheses, the sequence of the scientific method, and the tentative nature of scientific knowledge. Scientists function as authorities on the natural world and society's eyes and ears on nature. A theory must be supported by evidence and can explain many facts, while a hypothesis is a tentative explanation that requires more investigation.

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    Because scientists are in the business of investigating nature, scientists function as: Selected Answer: Correct Answer: authorities

    on the natural world. society's eyes and ears on the natural world.

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    Which of the following is true? Selected Answer: Correct Answer: A scientific theory explains what we know to this date about a natural event. A scientific theory explains what we know to this date about a natural event.

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    Choose the answer that best describes the sequence of the scientific method. Selected Answer: Correct Answer: observation, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion observation, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion

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    Question 4
    Which of the following is a theory? Selected Answer: Correct Answer: There is molecular and biochemical evidence that all organisms are related. There is molecular and biochemical evidence that all organisms are related.

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    Which one of the following is true about scientific knowledge? Selected Answer: Correct Answer:

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    Scientific knowledge is derived from careful thinking about the way things must work based on application of a few fundamental principles. Scientific knowledge is not absolute, because the possibility is always held open that new experiments may one day prove it wrong.

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    The questions that can be answered by science are: Selected Answer: Correct Answer: limited by what can be investigated using the scientific method. limited by what can be investigated using the scientific method.

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    Question 7
    The difference between a theory and a hypothesis is that Selected Answer: Correct Answer: a theory must be supported by evidence. a theory must be supported by evidence.

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    Question 8
    The first step in a scientific inquiry would be Selected Answer: making an observation.

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    making an observation.

    Question 9
    A scientific explanation that is tentative and requires more investigation is Selected Answer: Correct Answer: a hypothesis. a hypothesis.

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    Question 10
    A scientific theory is important because Selected Answer: Correct Answer: it can explain many facts. it can explain many facts.

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