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Terminology
Skills/Attitudes
Let's get tough
100
A forecast of what will happen in the future
What is predicting
100
curiosity
What attitude is connected with the desire to learn more?
100
The variable that might change
What is a responding variable?
200
An educated guess
What is inferring? or What is a hypothesis
200
A map is an example of this
What is a model?
200
Quantitative Data
What is data that can be measured with numbers
300
past experiences or evidence/observations
What is predicting based on?
300
an attitude of doubt
What is skepticism?
300
qualitative data
What is data that is collected with your senses
400
A statement that describes how to measure a variable
What is operational definition
400
An example of classification that was found in the Jane Goodall video
What is classifying leaves
400
a statement that describes what scientists expect to happen every time under a particular set of conditions
What is a scientic law?
500
manipulated variable (or independent variable)
What do you call a variable that you purposely change?
500
The process of grouping things based on similarities
What is classifying?
500
a process/method with many paths
What is scientific inquiry