Scientific Method
What is the process of speculating about objects or events of nature and formulating a sensible explanation?
What is hypothesizing?
Hypotheses are made using ________ reasoning
What is deductive?
What is the top 5 to 15 cm of soil called?
What is topsoil?
What is the general term for water below the soil's surface?
What is groundwater?
The study of matter
What is science?
Which component of the scientific method involves gathering data in an orderly way?
What is observing?
What is the ultimate purpose of inductive reasoning?
What is to determine cause and effect?
What soil layer contains more mineral material and less organic material?
What is subsoil?
What is the surface of the water under ground?
What is water table?
The substance of the physical world
What is matter?
A conclusion based on reasoning is an
What is an inference?
What is reasoning from specific evidence to a more general conclusion?
What is inductive reasoning?
What soil material has the smallest and most tightly packed particles?
What is clay?
What term describes the ability of bedrock to inhibit water from easily passing through?
What is impermeable?
What is a model?
Aliyah is using the scientific method to determine what type of fertilizer she should use on her tomato plants. She has already read about different types of fertilizers and the nutritional requirements of a tomato plants. What should Aliyah do next?
What is propose an idea to test?
hypothesis
What form of inductive reasoning involves comparing two situations that are the same except for one factor?
What is the method of difference?
What type of soil allows the most air and water into itself?
What is sandy soil?
What is a layer of either porous rock or gravel-soil mixture that holds water?
What is aquifer?
The factor changed when testing a hypothesis
What is the independent variable?
What do logicians call a statement of fact that can be used to make a conclusion?
What is proposition?
If an object is a planet, then it orbits the sun. Mercury is a planet. Drawing a conclusion about Mercury based on this information would be _______ reasoning.
What is deductive?
The three basic soil substances that plants need to live are called the
What are primary plant food elements?
What is the upward movement of water through a tiny space in response to surface tension?
What is capillary action?
Term for a nourishing substance
What is a nutrient?