Understanding Science
a pattern or behavior or an event in nature that is always true
What is scientific law?
a spoken or written summary of observations
What is description?
the factor measured or observed during an experiment
What is a dependent variable?
the smallest unit of life
What is a cell?
an explanation of observations or events based on knowledge gained from many observations and explanations.
What is scientific theory?
an interpretation of observations
What is explanation?
the factor that you want to test
What is a independent variable?
an organism’s ability to maintain steady internal conditions when outside conditions change
What is homeostasis?
the practical use of scientific knowledge especially for industrial or commercial use
What is technology?
a description of how close a measurement is to an accepted or true value
What is accuracy?
the factors in an experiment that remain the same
What is a constant?
living things that are made up of only one cell
What is unicellular?
the investigation and exploration of natural events of the new information that results from those investigations
What is science?
an internationally accepted system for measurement
What is International System of Units?
any factor in an experiment that can have more than one value
What is a variable?
things that have all the characteristics of life
What is an organism?
Results of a scientific investigation
What is technology, new msterials, & possible explanations?
the number of digits in a measurement that are known with a certain degree of reliability
What is significant digits?
living things that are made up of two or more cells
What is multicellular?