Science and History Quiz A

Science and History Quiz A >> Astronomy: Exploring Time and Space

Looking it up in Wikipedia.

Asking an expert about something.

Inspired guesswork.

Observations and data.

Correct

The fact that different atoms move at different speeds.

Atoms always have equal numbers of protons and electrons.

The way different chemicals were related in the periodic table.

The fact that chemical have different colors.

Correct

The Earth is bigger than the Moon, and Sun is bigger than the Moon, therefore the Earth is bigger than the Sun.

The Earth is round, therefore all planets are round.

The Earth is round, therefore the Earth is a planet.

The Earth is bigger than the Moon, and the Sun is bigger than the Earth, therefore the Sun is bigger than the Moon.

Correct

Everything is totally random.

Things happen all the time for no reason.

Everything happens for a reason.

It’s impossible to decide what causes most phenomena in the universe.

Correct

Data from an experiment that had been confirmed by a second research group.

Data from a single experimenter working in a government lab.

Data from an experiment on a drug carried out by the pharmaceutical company that makes the drug.

Data provided by a marketing company.

Correct

Set of unrelated ideas that are tied together somehow.

Brilliant idea that may or may not have data to support it.

Dependent on the reputation of the person who thought of it.

Conceptual framework that explains a large amount of data.

Correct

Always perfect

Always unreliable

As reliable as the reputation of the researcher involved in the experiment

Always subject to some uncertainty or limitations

Correct

Images taken by a spacecraft orbiting Saturn.

Photos taken by an astronaut on Saturn’s surface.

Their appearance though small telescopes in the backyards of very good amateur astronomers.

Images made with the camera of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Correct

The hypothesis or theory is OK as long as it came from a reputable researcher.

The hypothesis or theory should be modified or discarded.

The data must be wrong.

The data simply was not good enough.

Correct

“I can’t test this theory properly; I need to gather more data”

“I need to keep taking data until I prove this theory”

“I can’t explain this experiment so the data must be bad”

“My experiment didn’t work; I guess I’m just unlucky”

Correct

Science and History Quiz A >> Astronomy: Exploring Time and Space

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