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General Science merit badge
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Status:
| Discontinued
| BSA Advancement ID:
| n/a
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Created:
| 1972
| Replaced:
| Zoology
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Discontinued:
| 1985
| Replaced by:
| none
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General Science merit badge requirements at discontinuation
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- Do TWO of the following:
- a. Chart the moon and one planet for four hours. Relate this to a position on the horizon
- b. Chart the position and appearance of the Moon on the days or nights you can see it for 28 days
- c. Chart the positions of three constellations and the North Star during 4 hours. Relate to a point on the horizon
- d. Watch the report on an eclipse of the moon, a meteor shower, or similar astronomical event
- Describe your findings after checking TWO of the following:
- a. The erosion during a month's time of one of the following: A stream's banks, a tract of land from which the vegetation has been removed recently
- b. An exposure of a rock stratum or strata. (This could be at at a road cut, an excavation, or a natural canyon or river gorge).
- c. The appearance of three different kinds of clouds in the sky
- d. The environmental conditions which come before and during three different kinds of precipation
- e. The chances in the looks of three different kinds of rocks or minerals after being freshly broken and the newly exposed surfaces allowed to weather for a month
- Describe what you learned after watching TWO of the following:
- a. The germination of three different kinds of seeds
- b. The metamorphosis of an insect
- c. The parts of one flower before and after pollination, and some time before the seeds are ripe
- d. The buds of five kinds of trees while dormant and after partial opening, either natural or forced
- Build models or show the basic scientific principles or ideas the are applied in FIVE of the following:
- a. Using lenses to make a telescope or compound microscope
- b. Making a dry cell or other kind of electrical battery
- c. Extracting a metal from its ore
- d. Getting crystals from a solution of a substance
- e. Lifting something too heavy to lift directly
- f. Making a magnet that can be turned on and off
- g. Using materials that are more dense than water to build something that will float
- h. Shaping an airplane wing so it will lift a plane
- i. Changing back-and-forth motion to rotary motion
- j. Generating carbon dioxide so that some kinds of baked foods will rise
- Design, carry out, and report on or show FIVE experiments that will:
- a. Show change in volume of salt water above and below freezing
- b. Show the the composition of the air in a bottle has changed when a bottle is placed over a burning candle until the candle goes out
- c. Show what happens when new seedlings are badly crowded in a pot of soil
- d. Show the effects of rusting tendency on an iron nail placed in a jar of water when different metals are wrapped around the nail
- e. Find out how the strength of an electromagnet is changed by the number of turns of wire and the current
- f. Show the effect of available water on the root development of seedlings
- g. Compare the orientation of a plant grown in complete darkness with one that was grown in light.
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