Vocabulary
A way of learning about the natural world and also includes all of the knowledge gained by exploring the natural world
What is science?
During this step of the scientific method, a possible answer for a set of observations or answer to a scientific question
What is developing a hypothesis?
Taking notes on chimpanzee behavior would be an example of...
What is observing?
Predictions are based on these two things.
What are past experience or evidence?
Scientific Inquiry can be defined as this
What is the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations to it?
Using one or more of your senses to gather information
What is observing?
This step of the scientific method is the first step and begins scientific inquiry.
What is posing questions?
What is inferring?
These are the senses involved in the skill of observation.
What are Sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell?
The definition of the word data can be explained as this:
A forecast of what will happen
What is a prediction?
This step of the scientific method involves selecting variables and trying test your hypothesis.
What is designing an experiment?
Making a weather forecast would be an example of
Give the definition of a hypothesis.
After completing an experiment one makes a conclusion, which is what exactly?
What is A summary of what you have learned from an experiment?
The study of living things
Life Science
This step of the scientific involves the use of data tables and graphs.
What is Collecting and interpreting data.
The variable that is affected by the independent variable is this type.
A variable can be defined as this:
Typically an attempt to explain what is happening or has happened
What is an inference?
This step of the scientific method that involves sharing of ideas and experimental findings with others.
What is communicating?
A diagram of a cell would be an example of
What is a model?
This type of variable causes change to occur within the dependent variable.
What is the independent variable?
The most important step of the scientific method that involves the sharing of ideas with others.
What is communicating?