Briefly describe the scientific method
What will be an ideal response?
The scientific method is a process scientists use to better understand the natural world. It is a combination of many ways of analyzing information, finding relationships, and creating new ideas. Scientists use insight and ingenuity to form, test, revise, and possibly discard hypotheses, in the quest to gain a fundamental understanding of nature.
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Which Mars mission searched for life in the Martian soil in the 1970's?
A) Pathfinder B) Phoenix C) Viking D) Mariner
The angle that an incident light ray makes with the surface normal is
A. smaller than the angle that the reflected ray makes with the normal B. the same size as the angle that the reflected ray makes with the normal C. greater than the angle that the reflected ray makes with the normal