What is Science?
Science in Action
Models
Evaluating Science
Grab Bag
100
A way of learning more about the natural world.
What is science?
100
This is a reasonable prediction that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
100
A globe is an example of this type of model.
What is physical?
100
Experiments and data must be this in order for it to be reliable.
What is repeatable?
100
This is a career in science that studies the weather.
What is meteorologist?
200
This is the branch of science that studies living systems.
What is life science?
200
This is the one thing in an experiment that is supposed to change.
What is a variable?
200
This is an example of a model from the "Make Stuff: Smarter" film.
What is model airplane, stickybot, etc.?
200
This is the first smart thing to do when evaluating DATA.
What is check if data is specific?
200
Type of experiment where only one factor is changed and observing its effect on another.
What is controlled?
300
This is the branch of science that studies non-living things such as rocks, soil, clouds, rivers, oceans, planets and stars.
What is Earth science?
300
This tool is used to heat up molecules in the science lab.
What is a bunsen burner?
300
This is a model that cannot be touched but can be seen through a screen.
What is a computer model?
300
Results from this type of lab should not be considered accurate or reliable.
What is a dependent lab?
300
This is an attempted explanation for repeatedly observed patterns.
What is a scientific theory?
400
This is a rule that describes a pattern in nature but does not explain why.
What is a scientific law?
400
These aren't supposed to change in an experiment.
What are constants?
400
This is an example of an idea model.
What is Einstein's theory of relativity (E=mc2) or F=ma?
400
Graphs and tables are examples of this.
What is data?
400
This is known as the collection of structures, cycles and processes and how they interact together.
What is a system?
500
This is the practical use of science. AKA applied science.
What is technology?
500
This means to draw conclusions based on what was observed.
What is to infer or inference?
500
These are the THREE things that models can save.
What is time, money and lives?
500
Combining what you already know with new information (and possibly changing your perspective) is known as this.
What is critical thinking?
500
These are the types of questions that science CANNOT answer.
What is any questions of morals, politics, or art?
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