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The Basics
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Experimentation
Ta-da-ta
100
The difference processed people use to discover how things work in the natural world.
What is science?
100
Something scientists use to represent an object or event in order to make it easier to study.
What is a model?
100
The distance between two points.
What is length?
100
Factors
What are variables?
100
How close a measurement is to the true value.
What is accuracy?
200
The application of science for practical uses.
What is technology?
200
A statement or equation that accurately describes a natural process.
What is a law?
200
The force with which Earth's gravity pulls on an object.
What is weight?
200
An experiment where only one variable changes at a time.
What is controlled?
200
Exactness.
What is precision?
300
An idea about what will happen in the future.
What is a prediction?
300
A system of ideas that explains many related observations.
What is a theory?
300
A measure of the size of an object.
What is volume?
300
A possible answer that you could test.
What is a hypothesis?
300
The variable you control in an experiment.
What is independent?
400
The science that deals with how nature behaves.
What is natural science?
400
A statement that describes something precisely.
What is quantitative?
400
Measure of the amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
400
Asking more questions, making observations, and using logic.
What is critical thinking?
400
The variable which relies on the independent variable.
What is dependent?
500
The science that deals with human behavior.
What is social science?
500
A statement that describes processes or events using words.
What is qualitative?
500
Change
What is convert?
500
General processes scientists use to help organize their thinking about the questions they want to answer.
What are scientific methods?
500
Figures that show the precision of a measurement.
What is significant?