Question | Answer |
What is observing? | Means using one or more of your senses to gather information. |
What is a quantitative observation? | Deals with a number or amount. |
what is a qualitative observation? | Deals with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers. |
what is inferring? | Based on reasoning from what you already know about that topic. |
what is predicting? | Making a forecast of what will happen in the future based on past experiences. |
what is classifying? | The process of grouping together items that are alike in some way. |
what does Making models involve? | Involves creating representations of complex ideas or processes. |
What is science? | Is a way of learning about the natural world. |
What is skepticism? | Having an attitude or doubt. |
what is science inquiry? | Refers to diverse ways in which scientist study the natural world. |
what is a hypothesis? | possible explanation for a set of observations or answer to a scientific question. |
what is a variable? | Factors that can change in an experiment. |
what is manipulated variable? | A variable that is changed purposely to test the hypothesis. |
What is a responding variable? | A factor that may change in response of the manipulated variable. |
what is a controlled experiment? | That only one variable is manipulated at a time. |
what is an operational definition? | A statement that describes how to measure a particular variable. |
what is data? | Facts, Figures, and other evidence gathered to observations. |
what is communicating? | The sharing of ideas and experimental findings with other through writing and speaking. |