What is Science?
Science in Context
Studying Life
Controlled Experiments
Miscellaneous
100
an organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world
What is science?
100
the scientific attitudes help generate new ideas for science
What are curiosity, skepticism, open-mindedness, creativity?
100
The study of life.
What is Biology?
100
A controlled experiment should always test this number of variables?
What is one variable?
100
a logical interpretation of a set of observations
What is an inference?
200
a principle goal of science
Provide natural explanations for events of natural world, make predictions, understand patterns in nature
200
Without this, most modern scientific advances would never have been possible.
What is technology?
200
Any signal to which an organism responds to
What is a stimulus?
200
hypothesis
What is a testable explanation or prediction?
200
The pig is pink, covered in mud and really stinks.
What is a set of observations?
300
the steps the scientific method
What are investigating a problem, observing and asking questions, forming hypothesis, conducting experiments, and drawing conclusions?
300
When scientists check each other's work for mistakes and bias
What is peer review?
300
Maintaining a relatively stable internal environment even when the external environment changes.
What is homeostasis?
300
the dependent variable
What is the variable that is measured?
300
This can never be "proven".
What is a hypothesis?
400
the variable that is deliberately changed
What is the independent variable?
400
a well-tested explanation which unites several different hypotheses, explains available evidence, and predicts future events
What is a scientific theory?
400
Chemical reactions through which an organism builds up of breaks down materials
What is metabolism?
400
the first stage of any scientific inquiry
What is observation?
400
The tendency to question
What is skepticism?
500
the group that is exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group except for one independent variable
What is the control group?
500
a personal belief or opinion
What is bias?
500
Change over time
What is evolution?
500
Good science must be this
What is reproducible?
500
a small insect that consumes vast quantities of wood
What is a termite?
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