Using one or more of your senses to gather information.
What is observing?
100
Observations that deal with a number or amount.
What is quantitative observations?
100
If you possess this attitude you will always report your observations and results truthfully.
What is honesty?
100
Thinking and questioning is the start of this process.
What is scientific inquiry?
100
The rules that enable people to know right from wrong.
What is ethics?
200
A possible explanation for a set of observations or answer to a scientific question.
What is hypothesis?
200
Explaining or interpreting the things you observe based on reasoning from what you already know
What is inferring?
200
A scientist's open-mindedness should always be balanced by this.
What is skepticism?
200
Theory or Law: Gravity describes the attraction between all objects in the universe.
What is a law?
200
A mistake in the design of experiment that makes a particular result more likely.
What is experimental bias?
300
In a scientific experiment, facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through observations.
What is data?
300
Useful tool that may help a scientist interpret data by revealing unexpected patterns.
What is a graph?
300
Factors that can change in an experiment.
What is variables?
300
Proposing an explanation for the changing colors of the sky is an example of a ___________.
What is a hypothesis?
300
Using specific observations to make generalizations.
What is inductive reasoning?
400
Must be testable.
What is a hypothesis?
400
A well tested explanation for a wide range of observations or experimental results.
What is a theory?
400
If you state that your basketball team will win tonight's game because your team has always beaten the other team in the past, you are making a ___________.
What is a prediction?
400
An outlook influenced by a person's likes and dislikes.
What is personal bias?
400
A way to explain things by starting with a general idea an then applying the idea to a specific observation.
What is deductive reasoning?
500
Trying to explain a solar eclipse is an example of this.
What is scientific inquiry?
500
Eager to learn more about a topic.
What is curiosity?
500
One variable that is purposely changed to test a hypothesis.
What is a manipulated variable?
500
The process of creating representations of complex objects or processes.
What is making models?
500
An outlook influenced by the beliefs, social forms, and traits of a group.