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A.What is a model? B. What are the three pictures of in this section? |
A. Representation of an object or system. B. A punnet square, a model of a human body, and a dinosaur that was computer generated. |
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A. What are some physical model examples? B. What is a physical model? C. What do scientists often do with physical models? |
A. Toy rocket, plastic skeleton B. They look like the model, but aren't living. C. Scientists often use the model that is the simplest to use, but still serves it's purpose. |
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A. What is a mathematical model? B. What is a conceptual model? |
A. A mathematical model may be made up of numbers, equations, or other forms of data. B. A conceptual model represents systems of ideas or compare familiar ideas with unfamiliar ideas. |
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What are benefits of models? |
Computer models have helped make movies about prehistoric life on Earth. They help represent things that are very complicated or don't exist anymore. |
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Talk about scientific theories. |
Over time, scientists try to tie together all they have learned after making a hypothesis. Theories are conceptual models that help organize scientific thinking. They also predict what may happen in the future. |
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Talk about scientific laws. |
One kind of scientific idea that never changes is a scientific law. In science a law is a summary of results and observations. They are based on what will happen, not on what people want to happen. |
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Explain the scientific change. |
History shows that scientific ideas take a while to become accepted as a fact or law. They should be open to new ideas but always test them. The process never ends. |
Take a while to become accepted... |
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A. What type of model is a punnet square? B. What is a punnet square? |
A. A mathematical model B. A model of how traits may be passed from generations and on. Using it, scientists can predict what traits will appear to certain offspring. |
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Finish the sentence: for every hypothesis... |
...more than one prediction can be made. |
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