What is science?
Scientific Knowledge
Scientific Investigations
Representing Data
Science and Society
100
Is the study of the natural world.
What is science?
100
An explanation in science that has a lot of evidence to back it up.
What is a scientific theory?
100
A possible explanation of a scientific problem.
What is a hypothesis?
100
This variable changes as a result of the manipulation the other variable.
What is dependent variable?
100
The discovery that diseases can be spread in water led to water quality regualtions.
What is how science helps society?
200
Earth, Life and Physical Science
What are scientific subjects?
200
Experiments & Field work
What are 2 types of scientific investigations?
200
In controlled experiments only one should be tested.
What is a variable?
200
A graph with points plotted to show possible relationship between to sets of data.
What is scatter plot?
200
The space race
What is how politics affects science?
300
Something measurable and not just one person's opinion or guess.
What is scientific evidence?
300
microscope, balance, ruler, thermometer, glassware ect...
What are tools of a scientist?
300
Graphing results is this part of the scientific method.
What is analyzing data?
300
Used to display and compare data in a number of separate, or distinct, categories.
What is a bar graph?
300
Drive the direction of science. (3)
What are society, economics and politics?
400
Careful observations, curiosity, creativity, logic, skepticism and objectivity.
What are characteristics of scientists?
400
Most reliable scientific information is found here.
What is a scientific journal?
400
the factor that is deliberately changed in an experiment.
What is independent variable?
400
Used when you are showing how each group of data relates to all of the other data.
What is a circle graph?
400
Developed a vaccine to prevent polio?
Who is Jonas Salk?
500
Ideas are based on faulty logic and are supported by claims that can't be tested.
What is pseudoscience?
500
Supports or does not support the theory.
What is evidence?
500
Information gathered by observation or experimentation that can be used in calculating or reasoning.
What is data?
500
A representation of an object or process that allows scientists to study something in greater detail.
What is a model?
500
Government created agency that sets rules and laws for water quality for the entire country.
What is the EPA?
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