Science can be viewed as a continuing human effort tosystematise knowledge for describing and understandingnature.

Science can be viewed as a continuing human effort tosystematise knowledge for describing and understandingnature. You have learnt in your previous classes that wecome across diverse substances present in nature andchanges in them in daily life. Curd formation from milk,formation of vinegar from sugarcane juice on keepingfor prolonged time and rusting of iron are some of theexamples of changes which we come across many times.For the sake of convenience, science is sub-divided intovarious disciplines: chemistry, physics, biology, geology,etc. The branch of science that studies the preparation,properties, structure and reactions of material substancesis called chemistry.

Science is both the accumulated body of knowledge produced by many scientists and Blank______. Multiple choice question. a process for understanding the natural world the collection of stories used to explain unknowable events a rigid set of ideas and rules

Science is first an attiude that requires us to keep open eyes andMultiple Choicepractical thinking.questioning minds.intellectual honesty.questioning skepticism.

Science as a method relies onMultiple Choicea process of evaluating evidence to understand the natural world.proving something to be true based on instinct.asking any kind of question for which you want an answer.paradigm shifts–likely the knowledge we have today is incorrect.proving a hypothesis in order to understand the natural world.

Scientific research that produces knowledge without any immediate practical use is specifically known as Basic science Applied science Hypothesis-based science Descriptive science Retrospective science