An organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world.
What is science?
100
The act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way.
What is observation?
100
Numbers obtained by counting or measuring.
What is quantitative data?
100
The need to know about something.
What is curiosity?
100
The study of animals.
What is zoology?
200
A logical interpretation based on what scientists already know.
What is inference?
200
A scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it.
What is hypothesis?
200
The study of life.
What is biology?
200
The questioning of existing ideas and hypotheses; the refusal to accept explanations without evidence.
What is skepticism?
200
The study of the origins of the Earth.
What is geology?
300
An experiment in which only one variable is changed.
What is controlled experiment?
300
A baseline group that receives no treatment or a neutral treatment.
What is control group?
300
A well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations and hypotheses and that enables scientists to make accurate predictions about new situations.
What is scientific theory?
300
The willingness to accept different ideas.
What is open-mindedness?
300
The study of an organisms relatioship with its environment.
What is ecology?
400
A molecule containing the universal genetic code.
What is DNA?
400
The variable that is deliberately changed.
What is independent or manipulated variable?
400
A signal to which an organism responds.
What is stimulus?
400
The ability to "think outside the box" when designing experiments.
What is creativity?
400
The study of microorganisms.
What is microbiology?
500
Descriptive data; cannot be counted.
What is qualitative data?
500
The variable that is observed and that changes in response to the manipulated variable.
What is dependent or responding variable?
500
The combination of chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down materials.
What is metabolism?
500
A particular preference or point-of-view that is personal, rather than scientific.