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1Pause and Ponder (Page 4)1 questions
Q.1Think of a prediction you or your family made recently (for example, the outcome of a cricket match). Was it based on evidence and reasoning, or mainly on guesswork? How can scientific thinking improve such predictions?v
Answer:A prediction becomes scientific when it is based on evidence and reasoning rather than guesswork. Scientific thinking improves it by asking what evidence supports it, what assumptions are being made, and how the prediction can be tested against observation.
2Pause and Ponder (Page 6)2 questions
Q.2Describe one situation where an approximate answer is good enough, and one where you would need a very exact value.v
Answer:An approximate answer is enough for estimating monthly rice needed by a family; an exact value is needed for a medicine dose, laboratory measurement, or aircraft fuel calculation where small errors matter.
Q.3Choose a real-life object (maybe a pressure cooker or a mobile phone) or a problem (maybe a traffic jam near your school). Make a sketch listing what kind of ideas from physics, chemistry, biology, earth science, or mathematics are involved. Show how at least two branches of science connect with your example.v
Answer:For a pressure cooker, physics explains pressure and heat transfer, chemistry explains changes in food while cooking, biology explains killing microbes and softening tissues, and mathematics helps estimate time and fuel use. These branches connect because higher pressure changes boiling point and cooking reactions.