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Science and the Natural World
Thinking Like a Scientist
Scientific Inquiry
Miscellaneous
Potpourri
100
Grouping items that are alike in some way
What is classifying?
100
The type of bias that is a mistake in the design of an experiment that makes a particular result more likely
What is experimental bias?
100
Facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through qualitative and quantitative observations
What is data?
100
Observations that deal with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers
What are qualitative observations?
100
This type of bias comes from a person's likes and dislikes
What is personal bias?
200
Making a statement or claim about what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence
What is predicting?
200
The attitude that makes a scientist capable of accepting new and different ideas
What is open-mindedness?
200
A possible answer to a scientific question
What is a hypothesis?
200
A way of learning about the natural world
What is science?
200
A factor that can change in an experiment
What is a variable?
300
Creating representations of complex objects or processes
What is making models?
300
When you let personal feelings enter into a decision or a conclusion
What is subjective?
300
The factor that may change in response to the manipulated variable
What is the responding variable?
300
Using one or more of your senses to gather information
What is observing?
300
The only variable that is purposely changed to test a hypothesis
What is the manipulated variable?
400
Comparing observations and data to reach a conclusion
What is evaluating?
400
The attitude that helps scientists come up with inventive ways to solve problems or produce new things
What is creativity?
400
A statement that describes what scientists expect to happen every time under a particular set of conditions
What is a scientific theory?
400
Observations that deal with numbers or amounts
What are quantitative observations?
400
A summary of what was learned from an experiment
What is a conclusion?
500
Explaining or interpreting things you observe
What is inferring?
500
Uses specific observations to make generalizations
What is inductive reasoning?
500
This type of experiment is conducted when only one variable is manipulated at a time
What is a controlled experiment?
500
This type of reasoning can lead to faulty conclusions
What is faulty reasoning?
500
The scientific attitude of having doubt
What is skepticism?