Terms
Experiment Steps
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100

A possible explanation of what they observe, in nature or in the results of their experiments, that they can test.

What is Scientific theory?

100
The next step after "find out what is known about the problem", also the 3rd step to making your experiment.

What is ask a question to be investigated?

100

The chance that a given event will occur or that a given projection will be valid.

What is probability?

200

Information that is collected to answer a question.

What is data?

200

The step after "ask a question to be investigated", also the 4th step in making an experiment.

What is perform an experiment to answer the question and collect data?

200

A human effort to discover how the physical world works by making observations and measurements and carrying out experiments.

What is science?
300

Involves scientists openly publishing details of methods and models they used, the results of their experiments, and the reasoning behind their hypothesis for other scientists working in the same field to evaluate.

What is peer review?

300
The step after "use hypothesis to make testable projections", also the 8th step to making an experiment.

What is perform an experiment to test projections?

300

Scientific hypothesis that has been discarded as a result of peer review.

What is unreliable science?

400

An approximate representation or simulation of a system being studied.

What is model?

400
The step after "perform an experiment to test projections", also the 9th step to completing your experiment.

What is revise hypothesis?

400

Scientific hypothesis that are widely accepted by all or most of the scientists who are considered experts in the field under study.

What is reliable science?

500

Not yet considered reliable. Some of the results will be validated and classified as reliable the others will be discredited and classified as unreliable. 

What is tentative Science or Frontier Science 

500
The very last step in your experiment, following "accept hypothesis".

What is scientific theory?

500

A well-tested and widely accepted description of what we find happening repeatedly in nature in the same way.  

What is law of nature or scientific law?

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