TLAS 1.1
A way of learning about the natural world.
What is science?
An attitude of doubt.
What is skepticism?
A possible answer to a scientific question.
What is a hypothesis?
An educated guess based off of reasoning you already know.
What is inferring?
The rules that allow people to tell right from wrong.
What are ethics?
The independent variable.
What is the manipulated variable?
An observation based on numbers.
What is quantitative reasoning?
When personal feelings have entered into a discussion or conclusion.
What is subjective reasoning?
The dependent variable.
Grouping items based on similarities.
What is predicting?
To make decisions and draw conclusions based only on available evidence.
What is objective reasoning?
Facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through experiments.
What is data?
Comparing data to make a conclusion.
What is evaluating?
Using specific observations to make generalizations.
What is inductive reasoning?
An experiment in which only one variable is changed at a time.
What is a controlled experiment?