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Entering the World of Secondary Science
Science · CBSE Class 9 · English Medium · 12 questions and answers
Sample questions
- Q: What is science, in simple terms?
- A: Science is an organised way of understanding the natural world through curiosity, observation, questioning, and evidence.
- Q: How does the secondary stage of science differ from earlier classes?
- A: Earlier stages focus on curiosity and basic observation, while the secondary stage emphasises deep exploration — not just what science knows, but how it knows it.
- Q: What is a scientific model?
- A: A simplified representation of a complex idea or object that helps us understand, explain, and predict how something in nature behaves.
- Q: What is a hypothesis?
- A: A testable, tentative explanation or prediction proposed to answer a question, which is then checked through observation and experiment.
- Q: How does a scientific law differ from a scientific theory?
- A: A law describes a consistent pattern in nature (what happens), while a theory is a well-tested explanation of why that pattern happens.
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