Branches of Science Quiz

Applied sciences are disciplines that use scientific knowledge for practical purposes, such as in ______ and medicine.

Modern science is typically divided into three major branches: the natural sciences (e.g., physics, chemistry, and biology), which study the physical world; the social sciences (e.g., economics, psychology, and sociology), which study individuals and societies; and the ______ sciences (e.g., logic, mathematics, and theoretical computer science), which study ______ systems, governed by axioms and rules.

The history of science spans the majority of the historical record, with the earliest written records of identifiable predecessors to modern science dating to Bronze Age Egypt and Mesopotamia from around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped the Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes, while further advancements, including the introduction of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system, were made during the ______ Age of India.

______ is a rigorous, systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the world.