Scientific Investigation
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Science terms
Community Science
100
A series of steps or process used to answer a question regarding the natural world around them.
What is the scientific method?
100
Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas are examples of this type of resource.
What are fossil fuels?
100
One should wear these during an experiment to protect their eyes.
What are goggles?
100
A term used to describe the responsible use of resources to avoid depeletion.
What is sustainable?
100
A hypothesis may turn into this once enough research and evidence is collected to support it.
What is a scientific theory?
200
A prediction of what may occur or believed to result from extensive observation or testing.
What is a hypothesis?
200
Sources of energy found in nature that are necessary for survival.
What are natural resources?
200
You should pour this into water when mixing rather than water into it to avoid splashing on your skin.
What is acid?
200
A particular preference or point of view that is personal, rather than scientific.
What is bias?
200
Scientific knowledge changes with new_____
What is evidence?
300
The factor being tested in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
300
The effects of people in terms of land and water used for consumption and disposal of waste.
What is ecological footprint?
300
This lab safety symbol stands for_______.
What is health hazard?
300
A logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience.
What is inference?
300
A set of moral principles that may be held by a society, a group or an individual.
What are ethics?
400
The group in an experiment that receives variable being tested.
What is the experimental group?
400
Sources of energy that are plentiful and replenish at a faster rate than we are using them.
What are renewable resources?
400
Gloves or this instrument are used to handle hot objects in a laboratory?
What are tongs?
400
A term used to describe having limits or only lasting for a limited time.
What is finite?
400
A term used to describe the evaluation of scientific, academic, or professional work by others working in the same field.
What is peer review?
500
The factor being observed and monitored in an experiement.
What is the dependent variable?
500
When resources are used so irresponsibly that an area is completely wiped out and no longer able to support the life that once inhabited the area.
What is tragedy of the commons?
500
Wafting is a term used to describe the safe way to do this type of action.
What is smelling?
500
A rule that describes a patter in nature. Often explains the how but not the why.
What is a scientific law?
500
When a field of study borrows techniques from numerous subjects it is considered to be ______.
What is interdisciplinary?