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A thing that is known, or proven to be true
What is a FACT?
Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis
What is DATA?
Looking at something or someone carefully in order to gain information
What is an OBSERVATION?
If two or more things are trending the same direction on a graph, they are said to have ___________ correlation.
What is POSITIVE correlation?
If two things have opposite trends on a graph, they are said to have ___________ correlation.
What is NEGATIVE correlation?
What happens. Nothing has been found to go against it.
What is a LAW?
The discrepancy between a human measurement and the true value
What is EXPERIMENTAL ERROR?
Test done in a lab to gather data
What is an EXPERIMENT?
Able to be studied and the study reproduced by others
What is being TESTABLE?
Greenhouse gas produced by carbon emissions.
What is CO2 or CARBON DIOXIDE?
This type of model ties many different hypotheses together to explain an event or phenomenon
What is a CONCEPTUAL model?
Educated guess.
What is a HYPOTHESIS?
Smaller version of part of a system.
What is a PHYSICAL MODEL?
A group in an experiment that does not receive the independent variable
What is a CONTROL GROUP?
Able to be proven false
What is FALSIFIABLE?
Not influenced by personal feelings, representing facts
What is being OBJECTIVE?
This type of model uses mass amounts off data to represent a complex system. They are often computer programs.
What is a MATHEMATICAL model?
Influenced by personal feelings, representing opinions.
What is being SUBJECTIVE?
Evaluation of professional work by people in the same field.
What is PEER REVIEW?
Why something happens, supported by irrefutable evidence and facts
What is a THEORY?
The factor that is changed in an experiment
What is the INDEPENDENT VARIABLE?
A relationship between things.
What is CORRELATION?
The factors in the experiment that could change as the independent variable changes
What is a DEPENDENT VARIABLE?
A factor that produces the effect
What is CAUSATION?
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List the 6 steps of the Scientific Method.
1) Ask a question
2) Research your topic
3) Form a testable hypothesis
4) Do an experiment
5) Make observations and draw conclusions
6) Communicate results, reforfulate hypothesis