Understanding Science
The investigation and exploration of natural events and of the new information that results from those investigations.
What is Science?
What is an observation?
An explanation of observations or events that is based on knowledge gained from many observations and investigations.
What is Scientific Theory?
A spoken or written summary of observations.
What is a Description?
Any factor that can have more than one value.
What is a variable?
The study of Earth, including rocks, soils, oceans and the atmosphere.
What is Earth Science?
A possible explanation for an observation that can be tested by scientific investigation.
What is a hypothesis?
A rule that describes a pattern in nature.
What is Scientific Law?
An interpretation of observations.
What is an explanation?
A factor that you want to test.
What is an Independent Variable?
Why do some trees lose their leaves is an example of this type of Science.
What is Life Science?
The last step of the Scientific Method where you find the relationship among data and make inferences.
What is Drawing Conclusions.
The practical use of Scientific Knowledge.
What is Technology?
The internationally accepted system for measurement.
What is the International System of Units (SI)?
The factor you observe or measure during an experiment.
What is a dependent variable?
The study of matter and energy.
What is Physical Science
A logical explanation of an observation that is drawn from prior knowledge.
What is Inference?
Comparing what you already know with the information you are given in order to decide whether you agree with it.
What is critical thinking?
The number of digits in a measurement that you know with a certain degree of reliability.
What are significant digits?
Things Scientists think the Iceman could have been doing in the high mountains.
What is hunting, shepherding or prospecting for metal?
What is Earth Science?
A statement of what will happen next in a sequence of events.
What is a prediction?
Questions like, "Are comedies the best kinds of movies? or Is it ever okay to lie?" are examples of this.
What is a question Science cannot answer?
A thermometer, computer, internet, glassware, and triple beam balance are examples of these.
What are scientific Tools?
Has two groups, an experimental group and a control group.
What is a controlled experiment?