...trash (3). This is where landfills come into place and keep its trash forever. However, there is only so much land we can use to store our trash and keep it out of sight. This planet may seem huge but it is definitely not big enough to hold us and our billions of trash that we produce. Most of our worthless, empty bottled water ends up in the ocean besides on land. More specifically, it ends up in a placed called The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, which is a “collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean” (“Great Pacific Garbage Patch”). The amount of debris accumulates because not all plastic are biodegradable, which includes bottled water. As mentioned earlier, the amount of sunlight beaming through the plastic containers allows the bottle to leach BPA and thus, release its dangerous toxins in the water. It is even worse when the ocean’s currents mix the toxic chemicals with the salt water, expanding its pollution. Although the size of the patch is unknown, many reports say it could be twice the size of the continental United States (“Great Pacific Garbage Patch”). As expressed, the amount of bottled water being thrown annually produces a major source of pollution and thus, bottled waters should be banned in order to protect our...
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...Answers to Conceptual Integrated Science End-of-Chapter Questions Chapter 1: About Science Answers to Chapter 1 Review Questions 1 The era of modern science in the 16th century was launched when Galileo Galilei revived the Copernican view of the heliocentric universe, using experiments to study nature’s behavior. 2 In Conceptual Integrated Science, we believe that focusing on math too early is a poor substitute forconcepts. 3 We mean that it must be capable of being proved wrong. 4 Nonscientific hypotheses may be perfectly reasonable; they are nonscientific only because they are not falsifiable—there is no test for possible wrongness. 5 Galileo showed the falseness of Aristotle’s claim with a single experiment—dropping heavy and lightobjects from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. 6 A scientific fact is something that competent observers can observe and agree to be true; a hypothesis is an explanation or answer that is capable of being proved wrong; a law is a hypothesis that has been tested over and over and not contradicted; a theory is a synthesis of facts and well-tested hypotheses. 7 In everyday speech, a theory is the same as a hypothesis—a statement that hasn’t been tested. 8 Theories grow stronger and more precise as they evolve to include new information. 9 The term supernatural literally means “above nature.” Science works within nature, not above it. 10 They rely on subjective personal experience and do not lead to testable hypotheses. They lie outside...
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