What is Science?
The study of natural events and conditions.
What is science?
The process of gaining information by using senses
What is observation?
A description of what will happen and an explanation telling why that happens.
What is a scientific law and a scientific theory?
Bar graph, scatter plot, etc.
What are some types of graphs?
A measurement.
What is a description including a unit and number?
A belief based on incorrect scientific methods.
What is pseudoscience?
Information gathered from observations or experiments.
What is data?
Scientists can study objects in their original setting.
Why do scientists study outdoors?
A linear graph.
What is a graph with a straight line called?
Length, mass, time, temperature, etc.
What are the base SI units?
Measurements and observations.
What is empirical evidence?
A factor that is purposely manipulated and a factor that changes because of the manipulated factor.
What is an independent variable and a dependent variable?
Scientists can observe objects in a controlled environment.
Why do scientists study objects in labs?
It goes on the x-axis.
Where does the independent variable go?
All scientists use SI units and it easy to convert the units by multiplying or dividing by 10.
What advantages do the SI system have?
Objectivity, skepticism, logic, creativity, curiosity, and careful observation.
What are the characteristics that all scientists have in common?
Defining a problem, writing a hypothesis, identifying variables, analyzing data, etc.
What are the steps of the scientific method?
Clean water, medicine, more agriculture, teleportation, etc.
What are some ways science has affected our everyday lives?
Ones that closely resemble the object they represent.
Which kinds of models are the best?
dm3
What is the symbol for volume?
Their claims cannot be tested, which makes it impossible to prove them to be false.
What is the support the people who believe in pseudoscience use for their ideas?
Being able to be repeated by other scientists, etc.
What is a characteristic of a good scientific investigation?
By new evidence and sharing/debating about the information.
How do scientific ideas change?
Step 5, the final step of making a graph.
Which step is titling the graph?
Exponential growth.
What is it called when something increases more and more faster?