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11 Cards in this Set
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What are the four steps of the scientific method?
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1. formulating a problem
2. Observation and experiment 3. Interpretation 4. Testing the interpretation |
1. what do u need?
2. how u gna find out? 3. what do u think? 4. lets find out! |
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a law tells us (1)_______ and a theory tells us (2)______.
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(1). what
(2). why |
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What's a theory?
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A theory explains why certain events take place and, if they obey a particular law, how that law originates in terms of broader considerations.
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What is a model?
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A simplified version of reality. It's included in the hypothersis or theory.
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What did newton consider the earth to be?
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perfectly round.
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unlike a grapefruit and more like a billiard ball
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What is an ellipse?
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and ellipse is the path of the earth around the sun as an oval.
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What causes the earth to be distorted into the shape of a grapefruit?
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the way it spins.
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what is the one stay that is in the northern sky and seems barely to move at all?
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Polaris
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what do stars near polaris do?
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move in circles around it.
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What do the the circles carry?
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the circles carry the stars under Polaris from west to east and over it from east to west.
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What are constellations?
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Easily recognized groups of stars.
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