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How do you carry a microscope?
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You carry a microscope with one hand gripping the arm and the other underneath the base
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How do you determine the magnification of a microscope?
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Magnification of a microscope determined by multiplying the strength of the ocular by the objective lens that is being used. (ex: 10X ocular x 10X objective lens = 100X magnification)
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How do you avoid experimental errors in an experiment?
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To avoid experimental errors, a scientist must repeat his work many times with a high percentage of similar results and the results must agree with other scientific information before considering a conclusion valid.
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Who is called the Father of Microscopy and how did he earn his title?
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek is called the Father of Microscopy because he made over two hundred microscopes that enabled him to observe and describe cells and microorganisms.
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Why must you use a thin specimen when viewing with a light microscope?
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The specimen must be thin enough to allow light to pas through because the revealed picture is a silhouette of the specimen.
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What are the 10 attributes of life?
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10 Attributes of life:
movement growth reproduction comes from similar preexisting life similar chemical makeup composed of cells irritability requires energy maintains high level of organization faces death |
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What are the 5 Incorrect Truths and what is the 1 Correct Truth?
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5 Incorrect Truths:
what everybody believes, a hunch that works, repeated observation, whatever’s logical, what is accepted by faith 1 Correct Truth God's Word |
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Observations that involve personal feelings
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Subjective Data
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Observations that do not involve personal feelings and are based on observable facts
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Objective Data
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Observations that cannot be numerically measured, usually consisting of verbal descriptions of an observation
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Quantitative data
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Information obtained by measuring, usually expressed in numbers
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Qualitative Data
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A temporary explanation of a phenomenon/An educated guess about the solution to a problem;
when supported by sufficient facts, it may become a theory |
Hypothesis
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The result of a well tested hypothesis, it is an overarching model that describes the behavior of a related set of natural phenomena
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Theory
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The end result of a well tested theory
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Scientific Law
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A logical method of problem solving that involves observing and reaching a conclusion
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Scientific method
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An investigation into a topic often carried on by reading, inquiry, or scientific observation
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Research
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The act of conducting a controlled test or investigation
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Experiment
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A gathering of a sample of data or opinions considered to be representative of a whole
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Survey
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The recorded information from an experiment or survey
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Data
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An experiment testing two identical groups for a single variable
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Controlled experiment
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The difference between the control and experimental group
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Independent variable
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The group in an experiment that is not exposed to the experimental variable
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Control Group
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What is observed or measured in the experiment
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Dependent variable
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A body of facts that man has gathered by observing the physical universe
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Science
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something that is known to be true
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Fact
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States that living things are composed of four fluids or “humors.” These humors supposedly have certain properties and are produced by specific organs. A person is happy and healthy when the four humors are correctly proportioned and well mixed in the body. A person becomes ill when he has too much or too little of one humor.
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Doctrine of Humors
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used by the ancient Babylonians to prescribe remedies for various ailments. Fourteenth and fifteenth century Europeans believed that when God cursed man with diseases, He left physical signs for cures for those diseases.
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Doctrine of Signatures
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A nutrient rich solution in which microorganisms can live
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Infusion
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A microscopic organism
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Microbe
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A process of arriving at a conclusion through a series of ordered steps
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Logical reasoning
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What a person believes
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faith
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God's Word is...
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Truth
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Man's observations of the physical world
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realm of science
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The information that God has recorded in His Word
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Revealed truth
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Natural laws that God has established but has not revealed in His Word
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Unrevealed truth
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A false idea; that which is contradicted by scientific evidence, God's word or both
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Fallacy
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An idea supported by many observations and thought to be true
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Theory
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That which is true because man has defined it
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Truth by definition
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A process of beginning with many facts or assumptions in order to reach a conclusion
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Inductive reasoning
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The process of beginning with known facts and predicting a new fact.
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Deductive reasoning
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An explanation of how something works. They are constantly changing and so they are only a drawing or representation that cannot be used as a completely valid explanation of a phenomenon
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Model
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1. eyepiece (ocular)
2. Objective lenses 3. stage clips 4. Iris diaphram 5. iluminator (light source) 6. arm 7. stage 8. coarse focus knob 9. fine focus knob 10. base |
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What is the process to life?
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