What is Science
This is the study of living things
What is life science?
This is a procedure to study something under controlled experiments.
What is an experiment?
Scientific knowledge is always ______.
What is changing?
This is a line to describe the approximate relationship of points on a scatter plot.
What is a "line of best fit"?
Base metric system unit for temperature.
What is a kelvin?
Observations, measurements, and data are all examples of this.
What is empirical evidence?
This is a variable in an experiment that is purposely manipulated
What is an independent variable?
This is a description of the principles of nature
What is a scientific law?
This is the relationship of data points represented by a line that is not straight.
What is a non-linear graph?
The shorter way of expressing very big or very small numbers is called this.
What is scientific notation?
This is a belief or practice that is based on incorrectly applied scientific methods
What is pseudoscience?
Sharing conclusions from an experiment is the _______ step in the scientific method.
What is the final/last step?
This is a well supported explanation of nature
What is a scientific theory?
Scientists use this to record data during an experiment.
What is a data table?
Scientists use these to make observations that cannot be detected by the senses alone.
What are tools?
Careful observation, curiosity, creativity, logic, skepticism, and objectivity are examples of this.
What are characteristics of scientists?
Different situations require _______ scientific methods?
What are different scientific methods?
Working under controlled conditions are one of the advantages of this.
What is labwork?
This represents the dependent variable on a graph
What is the y-axis?
This can show the structure of an object, system, or concept.
What is a model?
This is the description of a process in nature.
What is a scientific explanation?
Controlled variables are key to a successful _______.
What is a scientific investigation/ experiment?
New evidence and _____ change scientific ideas.
What is debate?
These show patterns and comparisons.
What are graphs?
These are useful for understanding a complex system.
What are conceptual models?