Vocabulary
The study of the natural wold.
What is Science?
These two things characterize the practice of science.
What are empirical evidence and community consensus?
A testable idea or explanation that leads to scientific investigation.
What is a Hypothesis?
A scientific theory tells us this.
Why or how did the event just happen?
A descriptive statement or equation that reliably predicts events under certain conditions.
Tells us what just happened.
What is a Scientific Law?
The observations, measurements, and other types of data that people gather and test to support and evaluate scientific explanations.
What is Empirical Evidence?
These are the three steps that scientists take to evaluate a scientific explanation.
collect evidence, thing logically, and run additional tests?
In a scientific investigation, the factor that is deliberately manipulated.
What is the Independent Variable?
A scientific law tells us this.
What just happened?
What is a Scientist?
A process of investigation that in one or more ways resembles science but deviates from the scientific methods. Fake Science.
What is Pseudoscience?
Curious, creative, and skeptical are three of these.
What are characteristics of a good scientific observer?
In a scientific investigation, the factor that changes as a result of manipulation of the independent variable.
What is the dependent variable?
Two ways scientists obtain empirical evidence.
What are observations and experiments?
The observations, measurements, and other types of data that people gather and test to support and evaluate scientific explanations.
What is Empirical Evidence?
An organized procedure to study something under controlled conditions.
What is an Experiment?
Making observations, thinking logically, and being objective are these.
Information gathered by observation or experimentation that can be used in calculating or reasoning.
What is Data?
The difference between lab work and field work is this can be controlled.
What are the conditions?
A descriptive statement or equation that reliably predicts events under certain conditions.
Tells us what just happened.
What is a scientific law?
The process of obtaining information by using the senses.
What is Observation?
Scientists use models to do research for these reasons.
A system of ideas that explains many related observations and is supported by a large body of evidence acquired through scientific investigation.
Shows us how or why something happened.
What is a Scientific Theory?
Natural Science is broken into these three areas.
What are Biology, Geology, and Physical Science?
A system of ideas that explains many related observations and is supported by a large body of evidence acquired through scientific investigation.
Shows us how or why something happened.
What is a scientific theory?