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The English word science comes from the Latin scientia, which means what?Read the answer and worked solution →Who introduced the term scientist in 1834?Read the answer and worked solution →Before the word scientist appeared, a person doing scientific research was called what?Read the answer and worked solution →Science builds and organises knowledge mainly in the form of what?Read the answer and worked solution →In the empirical cycle, which step follows making observations?Read the answer and worked solution →The natural sciences study which of the following?Read the answer and worked solution →Which branch of science studies human behaviour and the functioning of societies?Read the answer and worked solution →Which branch of science relies exclusively on deductive reasoning, without empirical evidence?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is classed as a formal science?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pair is given as examples of applied sciences?Read the answer and worked solution →Engineering is best described as using scientific principles to do what?Read the answer and worked solution →Applied research is the search for what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which discipline falls under physical science?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these disciplines belongs to the social sciences?Read the answer and worked solution →Natural and social sciences are called empirical because their knowledge rests on what?Read the answer and worked solution →Bioinformatics is an example of which kind of science?Read the answer and worked solution →Computational science mainly applies which tool to scientific problems?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is a basic assumption behind the scientific method?Read the answer and worked solution →In scientific research, statistics is mainly used to do what?Read the answer and worked solution →A hypothesis is a tentative explanation used to make what kind of predictions?Read the answer and worked solution →How does a scientific theory typically differ from a single hypothesis?Read the answer and worked solution →What happens to a hypothesis that proves unsatisfactory after testing?Read the answer and worked solution →Which practice helps reduce experimenter bias?Read the answer and worked solution →Why is the scientific method often drawn as a circle?Read the answer and worked solution →For a prediction to test a hypothesis, its outcome must be what?Read the answer and worked solution →A hypothesis whose predictions cannot be observed is regarded as what?Read the answer and worked solution →Eddington's 1919 solar eclipse observations supported which theory over Newtonian gravitation?Read the answer and worked solution →Scientific work is generally accepted once other scientists have done what to the results?Read the answer and worked solution →Peer review mainly assesses which aspect of a study?Read the answer and worked solution →Popper used falsifiability to separate science from what kind of theory?Read the answer and worked solution →

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The English word science comes from the Latin scientia, which means what?

  1. Observation
  2. Experiment
  3. Knowledge
  4. Invention
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Correct answer: C. Knowledge

1. Science entered English in the 14th century from Anglo-Norman. 2. Its root is the Latin scientia, meaning knowledge, awareness, understanding. 3. Experiment, observation and invention name activities, not the root meaning. _Source: Wikipedia, Science, Etymology_

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Who introduced the term scientist in 1834?

  1. Isaac Newton
  2. William Whewell
  3. Francis Bacon
  4. Charles Darwin
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Correct answer: B. William Whewell

1. Earlier, researchers were called natural philosophers. 2. In 1834 William Whewell introduced the word scientist in a review. 3. Newton, Bacon and Darwin were natural philosophers and did not coin it. _Source: Wikipedia, Science, Etymology_

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Before the word scientist appeared, a person doing scientific research was called what?

  1. A master craftsman
  2. A court scholar
  3. A natural philosopher
  4. A trained engineer
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Correct answer: C. A natural philosopher

1. The word scientist is only from 1834. 2. Earlier, researchers were known as natural philosophers or men of science. 3. Craftsman, court scholar and technologist were not the standard term for researchers. _Source: Wikipedia, Science, Etymology_

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