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Is a way of learning about the natural world by gathering information.
What is science?
Well tested explanation for a wide range of observaions and experiments.
What is scientific theory?
Refers to the different ways scientist study the natural world.
What is scientific inquiry?
A statement that describes what scientist expect to happen every time under a particular set of conditions.
What is scientific law?
An investigation in which all variables except one remains the same.
What is controlled experiment?
The variable that is expected to change because the manipulated variable.
What is responding variable?
Using one or more senses to gather information.
What is observing?
Making a forecast of what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence.
What is predicting?
Are measurements.
What is Quantitative observation?
Variable that is changed.
What is a manipulated variable?
Factors that can change in an experiment.
what is a variable?
Are descriptions that dont involve numbers or measurements.
What is Qualitative observation?
The study of matter and energy and how they interact.
What is physics?
When you explain your observations.
What is inferring?
The study of the properties of matter and how matter changes.
What is chemistry?
Are facts figures and other evidence gathered through observation.
What is data?
Is a possible answer to a scientific question or explanation for a set of observations.
What is hypothesis?
Is sharing ideas and conclusions with other people through writing and speaking.
What is communicating?