Science
A process that includes the different ways scientists find out about the natural world and propose explanations based on evidence.
What is scientific inquiry?
A possible explanation for a set of observations or answer to a scientific question.
What is a hypothesis?
A way of changing the natural world to meet human needs or solve problems.
What is technology?
Observing, inferring, predicting, classifying and making models.
What are the five skills scientists use to learn about the natural world?
An experiment in which only one variable is manipulated.
What is a controlled experiment?
An experiment in which only one variable is manipulated.
What is a controlled experiment?
A way to test a hypothesis?
What is an experiment?
Someone who is trained to use both technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.
What is an engineer?
Using one or more of your senses to gather information.
What is observing?
What is data?
A well-tested scientific concept that explains a wide range of observations.
What is a scientific theory?
Researchers must be able to carry out investigations and gather evidence that will either prove or disprove this.
What is a testable hypothesis?
To improve the way people live.
What is the goal of technology?
Data that deals with numbers and/or data that comes from descriptions using one's senses.
What are quantitative and qualitative observations?
The process of grouping items that are alike in some way.
What is classifying?
A statement that describes what scientists expect to happen every time under a particular set of conditions.
What is a scientific law?
One factor that can change in an experiment.
What is a variable?
Technology changes or modifies the natural world and scientists study the natural world to learn from it.
What is the difference between technology and science?
Explaining or interpreting things that are observed.
What is inferring?
Creating representations of complex objects or processes.
What is making a model?
A way of learning about the natural world and the knowledge gained through that process.
What is science?
The part the scientist purposely changes in an experiment.
What is the manipulated variable?
The study of living things or biology.
What is life science?
Curiosity, honesty, open-mindedness, skepticism and creativity
What are the five scientific attitudes?
A description of how to measure a variable or define a term within a controlled experiment.
What is an operational definition?