Which of the following is an example of inductive reasoning?a. All cows eat grass;b. My cow eats grass and my neighbor's cow eats grass; therefore, all cows probably eat grass;c. If all cows eat grass, when I examine a random sample of all the cows in Minnesota, I will find that all of them eat grass;d. Cows may or may not eat grass, depending on the type of farm where they live

Which of the following is outside the realm of scientific inquiry?

At which point in a study is a scientific investigator most likely to use deductive reasoning?

Repetition of an experiment _________.

A scientific theory is __________.

A scientific hypothesis is .a. an opinion;b. a proposed explanation for an observation;c. a fact;d. easily proved true;e. an idea proposed by a scientist

In science, a theory is a(n) .a. educated guess;b. inference based on a lack of scientific evidence;c. idea with little experimental support;d. body of scientifically acceptable general principles;e. statement of fact

How is a scientific theory different from a scientific hypothesis?a. It is based on weaker evidence;b. It has not been proved true;c. It is not falsifiable;d. It can explain a large number of observations;e. It must be proposed by a professional scientist

Which of the following statements best distinguishes hypotheses from theories in science?a. Theories are hypotheses that have been proven.b. Hypotheses usually are narrow in scope; theories have broad explanatory power.c. Hypotheses are tentative guesses; theories are correct answers to questions about nature.d. Hypotheses and theories are different terms for essentially the same thing in science.