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Q. Which of the following is not an example of a scientific model?
An equation
A 3D representation of DNA
A flowchart of the water cycle
A simulation of the digestive system
A test tube
Q. What do engineers do?
Build stuff.
Make new equipment for scientists.
Solve problems.
Play with fun tools.
All of the answer choices are correct.
Q. When engineers develop a new tool or product to solve a problem, they run many tests on it and make revisions before presenting the finished product. What is this process an example of?
Laziness
Perfectionism
The scientific method
Insanity
A hypothesis
Q. How are science and technology related to one another?
They are second cousins, once removed.
Discoveries in each field help the other field advance.
Science can only advance without technology.
Technology can only advance without science.
They are not related.
Q. A crash test dummy is an example of which of the following?
A scientific model
A mannequin
A hypothesis
A very expensive seat warmer
A theory
Q. When would a scientist choose to use a model?
When they are trying to understand the structure of an atom.
When they are trying to show how the moon orbits the Earth.
When they are trying to demonstrate how sedimentary rock forms.
When they are trying to understand the warning signs of a tsunami.
All of the answer choices are correct.
Q. A scientist wants to model the structure of a worm's digestive system. What would be the best way to present this model?
A graph
A mathematical equation
An oil painting
A 3D representation
A flowchart
Q. Whom do scientists work most closely with when they are developing new tools?
Botanists
Doctors
Fisher mongers
Paleontologists
Engineers
Q. Which word best completes the following analogy: science is to knowledge, as technology is to __________.
power
facts
tools
theories
evidence
Q. Which of the following discoveries were made as a direct result of technological advances?
All living things are made of cells.
The human genome
The disturbing number of bacterial cells that can fit on the head of a pin.
The sun is the center of our solar system.
All of these answer choices are correct.