A testible idea that leads to an ivestigation.
What is a hypothesis?
This evidence includes observations and measurements.
What is empirical evidence?
The dependent variable is on the ___ axis.
What is the y-axis?
A description using numbers and units.
What is a measurement?
Use of a model to imitate functions/behavior
What is a simulation?
A factor that is deliberately manipulated.
What is an independent variable?
A stated, scientific fact
What is law?
The horizontal line on a graph.
What is the x-axis?
How close the measurement is to the true value.
What is accuracy?
A physical structure
What is a physical model?
The 3 defining categories of science.
What are Earth, Physical, and Life sciences?
Explains scientific laws
What is Theory?
A line on a graph with a smooth curve.
What is a nonlinear relation?
The exactness of a measurement.
What is precision?
A model using different forms of data to show an explanation.
What is a mathematical model?
These sites ending in ____ and ____ are most trusted that a website ending in .com.
What are .gov and .org?
This is a controlled environment for experiments.
What is a lab?
This goes down during the chewing gum lab.
What is the mass of the gum?
A short way of representing very large or very small numbers.
What is scientific notation?
How the system is organized
What is a conceptual model?