What is Science
An explanation for a set of observations or natural phenomena that have been repeatedly confirmed through experimentation and observations.
What is scientific theory?
A description of the level of exactness of a measurement.
What is precision?
The data that describes observed qualities and characteristics.
What is qualitative data?
A kind of evidence that is unbiased, gained through observation or experimentation.
What is empirical evidence?
This man discovered classification schemes and the origin of life.
Who is Aristotle?
The information collected by using one or more of the five senses.
What is an observation?
A method of expressing numbers as a value between on and ten multiplied by a whole number power of ten.
Three effective ways ways of organizing data.
What are tables, charts, and graphs?
The process involving testing of the hypothesis through the use of both a control and an experimental group.
What is experimental testing?
This man is the father of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
An established set of principles that scientists use as a logical, organized method of study.
What is scientific method?
A description of how close a measurement is to the standard or correct value.
What is accuracy?
Numeric data
What is quantitative data?
A way of thinking with reason and using sound judgement to form conclusions or make inferences.
What is logical reasoning?
This man discovered the cell theory.
Who is Robert Hooke?
An observation that has been confirmed repeatedly and accepted as truth.
What are significant figures?
Three written forms of communicating conclusions.
What are summary, lab report, and journal entry?
The viewing and examination of natural phenomena or other events and drawing inferences from the results, all without manipulating variables.
What is observational testing?
This man is considered the father of genetics.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
A proposed explanation for a set of observations or natural phenomena.
A mathematical ratio between two different units that measure that same quantity.
What is conversion factor?
One benefit of communication conclusions.
What is improves the quality of scientific work, allows multiple individuals to share scientific knowledge, or encourages scientific discussion?
This is used when there is no control group during a scientific test.
What is observational testing?
This man discovered that spontaneous generation was not true because all life came from life.
Who is Louis Pasteur?