Key Terms
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Nature of Science
Misc
Technology
100
The standard to which an experiment's results can be compared.
What is a control?
100
Type of science that studies Earth and space.
What is Earth Science?
100
The wings on our airplanes were what kind of variable?
What is an independent variable?
100
The four things in a lab you should know the location and proper use of.
What are safety shower, eye wash, fire blanket and fire alarm.
100
An instrument used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
In a experiment the variable being measured.
What is a dependent variable?
200
Newton's observations about motion are examples.
What are scientific laws?
200
The step after you identify the problem.
What is gather information or research?
200
Mercury and iodine are examples of these.
What are toxins?
200
Early civilizations relied on this to explain weather and recurring phenomena.
What is mythology?
300
The process of observing and studying things in your world.
What is science?
300
The first known weather instrument.
What was the rain gauge?
300
Three ways to analyze data.
What are tables, charts and diagrams?
300
Variable that does not change in an experiment.
What is a constant?
300
Why is science always changing?
Science changes as scientists develop better instruments and better testing procedures (ex: better technology).
400
Rule that describes the behavior of something in nature.
What is a scientific law?
400
The use of scientific discoveries for practical purposes.
What is technology?
400
The question of whether or not to use humans in medical research studies is an example.
What is ethics in science?
400
Why can't scientific methods be used to answer ethical questions?
Because ethical questions do not have variables that can be observed, measured, and tested.
400
The study of weather.
What is meteorology?
500
Problem solving procedures.
What is the scientific method?
500
It is important that experiments be designed to objectively test your hypothesis to avoid this.
What is bias?
500
Radar was developed for use in space and is used in medicine today is an example of this.
What is transferable technology?
500
Making up data, changing the results of an experiment or taking credit for work done by someone else.
What is scientific fraud?
500
The six steps in the scientific method.
What are identify a problem, gather information,make a hypotheses, test the hypotheses, analyze the results and draw conclusions.
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