Chapter 1.1
A systematic study of natural events and conditions.
What is science?
An organized procedure to study something under controlled conditions.
What is an experiment?
The study of the natural world.
What is science?
Facts figures and other evidence gathered in support of an experiment.
What is data?
A description that includes a number and a unit.
What is a measurement?
Something that includes observations, measurements and data.
What is empirical evidence?
The process of obtaining information through the senses.
What is observation?
A well-supported explanation of nature.
What is a theory?
What is a scatter plot?
lenght, mass , time and temperature.
What are base units?
Careful Observation, Curiosity, Creativity, Logic, Skeptism, and Objectivity.
What are things scientists need?
A testable idea that leads to a scientific experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
Gathering information where that conditions cannot be contained.
What is fieldwork?
Graphs used to display and show data in categories.
What is a bar graph?
Volume
What is a derived unit?
A belief or practice based on wrongly applied scientific methods.
Pseudoscience
The factor that is deliberately manipulated.
What is an independent variable?
The measurements and data scientists gather to support a theory.
What is evidence?
Shows the relationship between two variables studied.
What is a trend?
A short way of representing big or small numbers.
What is scientific notation?
Involves topics related to the natural world.
How is pseudoscience related to real science?
A description of a specific relationship under given conditions.
What is a law?
When the relationship between both variables can be shown in a straight line.
What is a linear graph?
A description of how close a measurement is to the description of the quantity measured.
What is accuracy?