SC 100 UPDATED Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Scientific Method - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Gather Data, find patterns, make a
hypothesis, make a prediction, gather data again.
Gathering Data - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Observation & Experimentation (placebo,
control group, blind/double blind)
Placebo - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Testing new medicine - sugar pill - psychological
impact - neither group knows if you're getting medication. *measure both groups
Blind/Double Blind - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Person giving medication doesn't know
what pill is which, so they don't act differently when administering the medication
In the gathering data step of the scientific method, both observations and experiments must
be performed? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Yes
Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A tentative explanation of some regularity of nature,
based on patterns in data.
Theory - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A thoroughly tested explanation of basic natural
phenomena.
Law of Nature - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A concise statement or mathematical equation
about a fundamental relationship or regularity of nature.
A hypothesis is... - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A tentative explanation for a natural
phenomenon
Prediction - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A statement, made in advance, about what one
believe will happen or how a particular system will behave - in the scientific method - the
prediction is based on the hypothesis
CORRECT Answers
Scientific Method - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- Gather Data, find patterns, make a
hypothesis, make a prediction, gather data again.
Gathering Data - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Observation & Experimentation (placebo,
control group, blind/double blind)
Placebo - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Testing new medicine - sugar pill - psychological
impact - neither group knows if you're getting medication. *measure both groups
Blind/Double Blind - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Person giving medication doesn't know
what pill is which, so they don't act differently when administering the medication
In the gathering data step of the scientific method, both observations and experiments must
be performed? - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Yes
Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A tentative explanation of some regularity of nature,
based on patterns in data.
Theory - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A thoroughly tested explanation of basic natural
phenomena.
Law of Nature - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A concise statement or mathematical equation
about a fundamental relationship or regularity of nature.
A hypothesis is... - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A tentative explanation for a natural
phenomenon
Prediction - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A statement, made in advance, about what one
believe will happen or how a particular system will behave - in the scientific method - the
prediction is based on the hypothesis
