Thinking Like a Scientist I
Thinking Like a Scientist II
Scientific Inquiry I
Scientific Inquiry II
Miscellaneous
100
_____ MEANS USING ONE OR MORE OF YOUR SENSES TO GATHER INFORMATION.
What is OBSERVING?
100
_____ _____ INVOLVES CREATING REPRESENTATIONS OF COMPLEX OBJECTS OR PROCESSES.
What is MAKING MODELS?
100
_____ _____ REFERS TO THE DIFFERENT WAYS IN WHICH SCIENTISTS STUDY THE NATURAL WORLD AND EXPLAIN IT BASED ON THE EVIDENCE THEY GATHER.
What is SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY?
100
_____ ARE THE FACTS, FIGURES, AND OTHER EVIDENCE GATHERED THROUGH OBSERVATIONS.
What are DATA?
100
THE STUDY OF THE MOON, STARS, AND OTHER OBJECTS IN SPACE IS CALLED _____.
What is ASTRONOMY?
200
WHEN YOU EXPLAIN OR INTERPRET THE THINGS YOU OBSERVE, YOU ARE _____ .
What is INFERRING?
200
_____ IS A WAY OF LEARNING ABOUT THE NATURAL WORLD.
What is SCIENCE?
200
A _____ IS A POSSIBLE EXPLANATION FOR A SET OF OBSERVATIONS (OR AN ANSWER TO A SCIENTIFIC QUESTION).
What is a HYPOTHESIS?
200
_____ IS THE SHARING OF IDEAS AND EXPERIMENTAL FINDINGS WITH OTHERS THROUGH WRITING AND SPEAKING.
What is COMMUNICATING?
200
THE SPINNING OF EARTH ON ITS AXIS IS CALLED _____.
What is ROTATION?
300
_____ MEANS MAKING A FORECAST OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE BASED ON PAST EXPERIENCE (OR EVIDENCE).
What is PREDICTING?
300
_____ IS HAVING AN ATTITUDE OF DOUBT.
What is SKEPTICISM?
300
_____ ARE FACTORS THAT CAN CHANGE IN AN EXPERIMENT.
What are VARIABLES?
300
AN _____ _____ IS A STATEMENT THAT DESCRIBES HOW TO DEFINE A PARTICULAR TERM (OR HOW TO MEASURE A PARTICULAR VARIABLE).
What is OPERATIONAL DEFINITION?
300
_____ IS THE MOVEMENT OF ONE OBJECT AROUND ANOTHER.
What is REVOLUTION?
400
_____ IS THE PROCESS OF GROUPING TOGETHER ITEMS THAT ARE ALIKE IN SOME WAY.
What is CLASSIFYING?
400
_____ OBSERVATIONS DEAL WITH DESCRIPTIONS THAT CANNOT BE EXPRESSED IN NUMBERS.
What are QUALITATIVE?
400
AN EXPERIMENT IN WHICH ONLY ONE VARIABLE IS MANIPULATED AT A TIME IS CALLED A _____ EXPERIMENT.
What is CONTROLLED?
400
THE ONE VARIABLE THAT IS PURPOSELY CHANGED TO TEST A HYPOTHESIS IS CALLED THE _____ VARIABLE.
What is MANIPULATED?
400
EARTH FOLLOWS A PATH, OR _____, AS IT REVOLVES AROUND THE SUN.
What is ORBIT?
500
_____ OBSERVATIONS DEAL WITH A NUMBER (OR AMOUNT).
What are QUANTITATIVE?
500
HAVING _____ _____ MEANS THAT YOU UNDERSTAND BASIC SCIENTIFIC TERMS AND PRINCIPLES.
What is SCIENTIFIC LITERACY?
500
THE FACTOR THAT MAY CHANGE IN RESPONSE TO THE MANIPULATED VARIABLE IS CALLED THE _____ VARIABLE.
What is RESPONDING?
500
A _____ _____ IS A WELL-TESTED EXPLANATION FOR A WIDE RANGE OF OBSERVATIONS (OR EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS).
What is SCIENTIFIC THEORY?
500
A _____ _____ IS A STATEMENT THAT DESCRIBES WHAT SCIENTISTS EXPECT TO HAPPEN EVERY TIME UNDER A PARTICULAR SET OF CONDITIONS.
What is SCIENTIFIC LAW?
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