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Edition Zumdahl
Chapter 01 – Chemical Foundations
1. Which of the following is NOT a practice that would be employed by a scientist?
a. testing ideas by experimentation
b. organizing findings in specific ways
c. predicting the outcome of an experiment and then not testing the prediction
d. trying to explain how nature works
e. making physical models to explain the behavior of matter
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AF.ZUMD.21.01.1 - Scientific Method
2. Which of the following is NOT normally a part of scientific inquiry?
a. making observations
b. philosophizing
c. suggesting an explanation
d. testing hypotheses
e. performing experiments
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AF.ZUMD.21.01.1 - Scientific Method
3. Which of the following statements is incorrect?
a. The scientific method is a way of looking at the world that is different from nonscientific forms of
inquiry.
b. The scientific method does not allow for the use of inferences, and everything must be proven by
direct observation.
c. A theory is a guess about the behavior or properties of matter.
d. Scientists must isolate and study one variable at a time when performing experiments.
e. A behavior of matter that has universal validity is called a natural law.
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AF.ZUMD.21.01.1 - Scientific Method
4. Which of the following observations does NOT relate specifically to the law of definite proportions?
a. Pure water is composed of the elements oxygen and hydrogen in a mass ratio of 8 to 1.
b. Any sample of a given compound always contains the same proportions by mass of the component
elements.
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Edition Zumdahl
Chapter 01 – Chemical Foundations
1. Which of the following is NOT a practice that would be employed by a scientist?
a. testing ideas by experimentation
b. organizing findings in specific ways
c. predicting the outcome of an experiment and then not testing the prediction
d. trying to explain how nature works
e. making physical models to explain the behavior of matter
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AF.ZUMD.21.01.1 - Scientific Method
2. Which of the following is NOT normally a part of scientific inquiry?
a. making observations
b. philosophizing
c. suggesting an explanation
d. testing hypotheses
e. performing experiments
ANSWER: b
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AF.ZUMD.21.01.1 - Scientific Method
3. Which of the following statements is incorrect?
a. The scientific method is a way of looking at the world that is different from nonscientific forms of
inquiry.
b. The scientific method does not allow for the use of inferences, and everything must be proven by
direct observation.
c. A theory is a guess about the behavior or properties of matter.
d. Scientists must isolate and study one variable at a time when performing experiments.
e. A behavior of matter that has universal validity is called a natural law.
ANSWER: c
POINTS: 1
QUESTION TYPE: Multiple Choice
HAS VARIABLES: False
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: AF.ZUMD.21.01.1 - Scientific Method
4. Which of the following observations does NOT relate specifically to the law of definite proportions?
a. Pure water is composed of the elements oxygen and hydrogen in a mass ratio of 8 to 1.
b. Any sample of a given compound always contains the same proportions by mass of the component
elements.
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