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The notion of popular science or of the public understanding of science is very much a concern in today' s world, where we can see (i)_______ between science and nonscience. But in the nineteenth century, there was still an enviable mixing and cross-fertilization between seemingly (ii)_______ subjects, and there was no (iii)________ what counted as science, let alone how a public understanding might differ from any other sort of understanding.
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Biologist Catherine Graham, studying toucans in Mexico, predicted that because toucans prefer relatively large forest patches and feed on fruit, they would fly more often to (i)_______ patches and to patches with abundant fruit resources than to small patches or those that had (ii)_______ fruit resources.
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Once photographs depicting important family events such as vacations or weddings are assembled and presented in a family album, the collection of photographs is treated as (i)________ record of events; but what we (ii)________ to (iii)________ is the active selection process that led to the making of the album.
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The museum' s display of bandolier bags made by Ojibwa artists of the Mille Lacs community reinforces the idea that this community' s culture is _______ one: early twentieth-century bandolier bags are displayed alongside others made recently.
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While the rate at which absolute global sea level is rising may seem _______, it has been far from an incidental factor in human history.
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Age data from meteorites suggests that, in contrast to the relatively ________ pace of planetary evolution we are witnessing today, the first ten million years or so of our solar system history were extremely eventful.
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A recent survey of 120 United States corporations found that a third of employees in blue-chip corporations wrote poorly in their electronic mail. Millions of these (i)________ e-mail messages are clogging computers by setting off requests for (ii)________, and many of the requests, in turn, are also (iii)________ written, resulting in whole cycles of confusion.
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Because Earth' s atmosphere distorts astronomical observations, whatever tends to _______ its influence is dismaying to the astronomer.
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