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8B SCIENCE
Question | Answer |
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What is Science? | A way of learning about the natural world by gathering information |
What is a qualatative observation? | descriptions that don't involve numbers or measuements |
Observations that include measurments are called what? | quantitative observations |
What is the study of matter, energy, and the changes they undergo? | Physical Science |
What is Chemistry? | the study of the properties of matter and how matter changes |
What is physics? | the study of matter and energy and how they interact |
What are the three parts of how scientists think? | observing, inferring, and predicting |
What is scientific inquiry? | It refers to the different ways scientists study the natural world. |
What is a possible answer to a scientific question or explanation for the set of observations? | a hypothesis |
What are variables? | Factors that can change in an experiment |
What is a manipulated variable? | The variable that changes |
What is a responding variable? | The variable that is expected to change because of manipulated variable |
What is an controlled experiment? | an investigation in which all variables expect one remain the same |
The facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through observations is what? | Data |
Communicating is what? | sharing ideas and conclusions with others through writing and speaking |
A statement that describes what scientists expect to happen everytime under particular set of conditions is what? | Scientific law |
What is scientific theory? | A well tested explanation for a wide range of observations or experimental results |