Exam Questions and Correct
Answers | New Update
how many species live in planet Earth? - ANSWER ✔✔unknown-
roughly 3 to 5 million
why is life so incredibly diverse, yet so strangely similar? - ANSWER
✔✔organisms can contain similar features. planes have wings, birds
have wings-this feature is useful for different things (different for
penguins, pelicans, bats, eagles)
true or false: biodiversity on earth will likely decrease in the near future?
- ANSWER ✔✔
, true or false: scientists believe in evolution even though they currently
lack evidence for the theory - ANSWER ✔✔false
true or false: opposition to irrational numbers was based on evidence
that such numbers cannot exist - ANSWER ✔✔false
true or false: opposition to irrational numbers stemmed from a worldview
involving naturalistic evolution - ANSWER ✔✔false
true or false: the belief that irrational numbers cannot exist reflects
religion more than science - ANSWER ✔✔true
true or false: modern mathematicians accept irrational numbers because
such numbers provide more accurate solutions to problems than whole
numbers do - ANSWER ✔✔true
the scientific method relies on.... - ANSWER ✔✔models,
observations, and experiments
a model is a formal description of a scientific hypothesis. which provides
the most precise description of a hypothesis? - ANSWER ✔✔
true or false: an experiment enables one to demonstrate that a
correlation between two variables results from cause and effect -
ANSWER ✔✔true