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What is Science?
Scientific Knowledge
Scientific Investigations
Representing Data
Science Lab
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The Natural World and Testable Ideas

What are the two main things studied by science?

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Theories, models, and laws.
What are the three types of scientific explanations?
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Experiments, Observations
What are the types of scientific investigations?
100
Facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through observations and experiments
What is data?
100
This was the topic of the bar graph from our science lab.
What is "Different Colors of M&Ms in a Bag"?
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This kind of question can be tested.
What is a testable question?
200
This is a well-supported explanation about the natural world.
What is a theory?
200
This is a testable idea or explanation that leads to a scientific explanation.
What is a hypothesis?
200
This is used to display and compare data in a number of separate categories
What is a bar graph?
200
This is the kind of graph used in our science lab.
What is a bar graph?
300
This kind of evidence is gained from observations and is measurable.
What is empirical evidence?
300
This is a representation of something in the natural world.
What is a model?
300
This part of an investigation is any factor that can change.
What is a variable?
300
This is used to show continuous change over time.
What is a line graph?
300
Scientists should (always/never) share their results with other scientists.
What is "always"?
400
Scientists show this by designing experiments and explaining observations.
What is creativity?
400
This is a basic principle of nature that always occurs under certain conditions.
What is a law?
400
Information gathered by observation or experimentatio
What is data?
400
This is used when you are showing how each group of data relates to all of the data.
What is a circle graph, or pie graph?
400
Other students (should/should not) be able to replicate your lab investigation.
What is "should"?
500
This person claimed he got the idea for gravity when he saw an apple fall from a tree.
Who is Isaac Newton?
500
A University website is an example of this.
What is a good source?
500
These are all of the things you must gather in order to do an investigation.
What are materials?
500
This kind of variable is the kind that is purposely changed in an investigation
What is an independent variable?
500
The lab we performed in class (was/was not) testing something.
What is "was not"?