Branches of Science Quiz

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

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

There is disagreement whether the formal sciences are science disciplines, because they do not rely on ______ evidence.

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

The history of scientific discipline spans the majority of the historical record, with the earliest written records of identifiable predecessors to modern science dating to Bronze Age ______ and Mesopotamia.