SCMH 1010 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH
100% CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST
VERSION 2025/2026.
What way of understanding has poor predictability - ANS astrology
what is peer review - ANS system of having other experts check scientific findings before they
are presented to the wider world
what are some information sources subject to peer review - ANS sciencemag.org, nature.org
ex of superstition - ANS the Native American belief that a solar eclipse is a mythical frog
trying to eat the sun
ex of pseudoscience - ANS a juice cleanse will purge your body of all anti-keto di-eletrolitic
fatty oxidants
ex of conspiracy theory - ANS a clandestine group of government is trying to make us think
climate change is real so they can get more grants
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, which govt agency provides the most funding for scientists - ANS department of defense
(DOD)
Where is the CDC located? - ANS Atlanta, Georgia
greek philosophers believed experimentation - ANS was NOT the way to gain knowledge
Plato believed - ANS - gain knowledge through introspection
-dismissed observations bc senses can lie
early experiments/foundation for modern chemistry - ANS alchemy
Occam's Razor - ANS the fewer assumptions we have to make, the more likely it is to be true
Laws of Planetary Motion - ANS Johannes Kepler
Every law and theory of nature is subject to - ANS change, based on new observations
T or F? you always have to start at the beginning of the Scientific Method - ANS F, SM is a
cycle
Web of Knowledge - ANS laws of nature tie everything together
basic research - ANS purpose is to expand knowledge
applied research - ANS problem-solving, inventions
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100% CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST
VERSION 2025/2026.
What way of understanding has poor predictability - ANS astrology
what is peer review - ANS system of having other experts check scientific findings before they
are presented to the wider world
what are some information sources subject to peer review - ANS sciencemag.org, nature.org
ex of superstition - ANS the Native American belief that a solar eclipse is a mythical frog
trying to eat the sun
ex of pseudoscience - ANS a juice cleanse will purge your body of all anti-keto di-eletrolitic
fatty oxidants
ex of conspiracy theory - ANS a clandestine group of government is trying to make us think
climate change is real so they can get more grants
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
, which govt agency provides the most funding for scientists - ANS department of defense
(DOD)
Where is the CDC located? - ANS Atlanta, Georgia
greek philosophers believed experimentation - ANS was NOT the way to gain knowledge
Plato believed - ANS - gain knowledge through introspection
-dismissed observations bc senses can lie
early experiments/foundation for modern chemistry - ANS alchemy
Occam's Razor - ANS the fewer assumptions we have to make, the more likely it is to be true
Laws of Planetary Motion - ANS Johannes Kepler
Every law and theory of nature is subject to - ANS change, based on new observations
T or F? you always have to start at the beginning of the Scientific Method - ANS F, SM is a
cycle
Web of Knowledge - ANS laws of nature tie everything together
basic research - ANS purpose is to expand knowledge
applied research - ANS problem-solving, inventions
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
