University:
Loyola University Maryland
Course:
BL 111 | Environmental Biology
Academic year:

2024
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471

Pages:

2
Author:

Natasya J.

The Scentific Method The scientific metnod is mernod ot research with defined steps that include experiments and careful observation. The step of the scentific method will be examined on detall later, but one of the most important aspects of this method is the testing of hypotheses. A hypothess is an proposed explanatory statement, for a given natural phenomenon, that canbe tested. Hypotneses, or tentative explanations, are different than a scientitic theory. A scentific theory is a widely - occepted, throughly tested and contrmed explanation for aset of doservations os phenomena. Scentific theory theory is the foundation of scentific knowledge. In addition. In many sclentfi discipines (less som biology) there are scentific laws, otten expressed in mathematical formulas, which describe how elements of nature will behave under expressed un mathe matical formulas, which describe how elements of nature will behave under certain specdc conditions, but they do not offer explanations for why they occur. Saence includes such diserve fields as astronomy, computer sclences, psychology, biology, and matrematics. However, those fields of science related to the physical world and it's phenomena and processes are considered natural sclences and incude the disaplines of physics, gedogy, biology, and chemistry. Environmental science is a cross - disciplinary natural sclence because it relies of the disciplines of chemistry, biology, and geology One thing is common to all forms of saence: an ultima te goal to know. Curosity and inquiry are the driving forces for the development of suence. scentists seek to understand the world and the way it operates. Two methods of logieal thinking are used: inductive reasoning, and deductive reasoning.