Evaluating Scientific Explanations Answers

Apex is a new internet streaming service. Read their advertisement from the local newspaper.Apex is the newest, fastest streaming service in the area! We provide more than one hundred channels, twice as many as some other streaming services. There are no setup costs, and our monthly fee is one-third the price of every other streaming service in the area.

Read the claim about caffeine.Caffeine improves mental alertness and motor coordination. A university research study was conducted to examine how moderate doses of caffeine affect fine motor skills. Ten teen girls, ages 14 to 18, were given 200 mg of caffeine per day for 30 days. Thirty minutes after taking the caffeine, each subject took a timed fine motor skills test in which they fitted 20 small beads onto pegs. The graph compares each subject’s average results on the same test done 30 minutes before and after taking the caffeine.

If peers accept a scientific paper’s claim, what is the next step in the process?

If data are from a trusted source and the results are validated by multiple tests, which describes the evidence supporting a scientific claim?

What is it called when scientists in the same or similar field of study judge the quality of a fellow scientist’s scientific claim?

In a recent survey of students who graduated from a large public high school, nine out of ten students reported that they passed biology with a grade of seventy-five percent or higher. What further data could be produced to be sure that this information is accurate?

Read the claim.Breakfast is an important meal. It jump starts the body’s process of using calories to break down food. Appetite can decrease with age, but going too long without eating causes metabolism to slow down. Current research shows that incorporating legumes such as lentils and chickpeas into meals boosts metabolism for twenty-four hours.

Cookware companies have been using a chemical called C-8, which helps to create a nonstick coating to pans. However, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently claimed that the use of C-8 in the manufacturing of nonstick cookware should be discontinued because studies show it causes cancer.

Which source is most likely an authority on the subject?

Read the article by Michael Fumento, writer for the New York Post editorial blog, who does not support global warming.Back in 2005 I and others reviewed the entire hurricane record, which goes back over a century, and found no increase of any kind. Yes, we sometimes get bad storms—but no frequently now than in the past. The advocates simply ignored that evidence.Fact is, the earth was cooling and warming long before greenhouse gases could have been a factor. The [global warming supporters] have been proved wrong time and time again.