Vocabulary
A process for answering questions
What is science?
What is a scientific fact?
A microbiologist looks through a microscope to study small organisms
What is seeing?
What is Earth Science?
is tested to see if it is correct or not.
What is a hypothesis?
a possible answer to a scientific question based on observations
What is a hypothesis?
an example is gravity
What is a scientific law?
using data from food scientists' chemistry experiments to enhance these senses
What is taste and smell?
the study of how and why things move.
What is Physics?
the final step of the scientific method
What is forming a conclusion?
- pieces of information collected to test a hypothesis.
What is data?
they are supported by evidence collected through many observations & experiments
What are a scientific fact, scientific law & scientific theory?
using sensory nerves in the skin
What is touch?
the study of living things
What is Biology?
data that is collected in the form of numbers
What is quantitative?
a statement based on experiences
What is an inference?
addresses more complex topics, such as plate tectonics
What is a scientific theory?
Using acoustics to design scientific objects
What is hearing?
the study of matter
What is Chemistry?
data that is collected in the form of words
What is qualitative?
observe, question, form a hypothesis, collect data & form a conclusion
What is the scientific method?
they describe, but do not explain an observed phenomenon
What is a scientific law?
the scientific field and the sense used to identify bird calls
What are ornithology and hearing?
the study of living things and how they interact with each other and their environment.
What is ecology?
an activity performed to support or refute a hypothesis
What is an experiment?