What is Science?
A way of learning about the natural world; includes all the knowledge gained by exploring the natural world.
What is science?
Using one or more of your senses to gather information.
What is observing?
An attitude defined as a strong desire to know or learn something.
What is curiosity?
A way to explain things by starting with a general idea and then applying the idea to a specific observation.
What is deductive reasoning?
Facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through qualitative and quantitative observations.
What is data?
The diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on the evidence they gather.
What is scientific inquiry?
An interpretation based on observations and prior knowledge; when you explain or interpret the things you observe.
What is inferring?
An attitude of speaking and acting truthfully; not lying, deceiving, stealing, or cheating.
What is honesty?
Making decisions and drawing conclusions based on available evidence.
What is objective?
A possible answer to a scientific question; must be testable.
What is a hypothesis?
An observation that deals with numbers, or amounts.
What is a quantitative observation?
Making a statement or a claim about what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence.
What is predicting?
An attitude of coming up with inventive ways to solve problems or produce new things.
What is creativity?
Using specific observations to make generalizations.
What is inductive reasoning?
An experiment in which only one variable is manipulated at a time.
What is a controlled experiment?
An observation that deals with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers.
What is a qualitative observation?
The grouping together of items that are alike in some way.
What is classifying?
An attitude of doubt.
What is skepticism?
When one allows personal feelings to enter into a decision or conclusion.
What is subjective?
The one variable that is purposely changed to test a hypothesis; also called the independent variable.
What is the manipulated variable?
A well-tested explanation for a wide range of observations and experimental results.
What is scientific theory?
Comparing observations and data to reach a conclusion about them.
What is evaluating?
What is ethics?
Reasoning that can lead to faulty conclusions based on too little data.
What is faulty reasoning?
The factor that may change in response to the manipulated variable; also called the dependent variable.
What is the responding variable?