What is Science?
An attempt to explain a pattern observed repeatedly in the natural world.
What is a theory?
The study of living things and how they interact.
What is life science?
Factors that can change in an experiment.
What are variables?
Models you can see and touch.
What are physical models?
Combining what you already know with the new facts that you are given to decide if you should agree with something.
What is critical thinking?
A rule that describes a pattern in nature.
What is a scientific law?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
Factors that do not change in an experiment.
What are constants?
Models built using software that can be viewed but not touched.
What are computer models?
A collection of scientific observations.
What is data?
A collection of structures, cycles and processes that relate to and interact with each other.
What is a system?
An educated guess that can be tested with an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
The variable that is changed in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
Models made to illustrate ideas or concepts.
What are idea models?
The capital of Indiana.
What is Indianapolis?
This is why science can never answer a question with certainty.
What is people will never know everything about the natural world?
The study of matter and energy.
What is physical science?
To draw a conclusion based on what you observe.
What is to infer/inference?
Any representation of an object or an event used as a tool for understanding the natural world.
What is a model?
He wrote the Cannelton High School song.
Who is Andrew C. Little?
This is how a theory can change.
What is new discoveries are made that contradict the existing theory?
The practical use of science to solve a problem.
What is technology?
The variable that is being tested in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
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Name the three types of models.
What are idea, physical, and computer models?
The sixteenth president of the United States of America.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?