Mr. Biando's Lab - PSSA Glossery Terms - Science Inquiry
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| Delineate | To trace the outline; to draw; to sketch; to depict or picture.
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| fact | Information that has been objectively verified.
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| hypothesis | an assertion subject to verification or proof as a premise from which a conclusion is drawn.
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| inquiry | A systematic process for using knowledge and skills to acquire and apply new knowledge.
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| Law | Summerizing statement of observed experimental facts that has been tested many times and is accepted as true.
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| Theory | Systematically organized knowledge applicable to a variety of circumstances; a system of assumptions, accepted principles and rules devised to analyize, predict or explain behavior or phenomena.
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| model | A description or representation of something that helps to explain things.
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| Regulation | A rule or order or law issued by an authoritive agency to be followed.
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| Risk management | A strategy developed to reduce risk of harm to ones health, life or ecosystems.
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| scale | Provides a measure of size or incremental change.
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| System | A group of related objects that work together.
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| Closed loop system | A group of related objects that have feedback and can modify themselves.
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| Open loop system | A group of related objects that do not have feedback and cannot modify themselves.
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| Subsystem | A group of related objects that make up a larger system.
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| Science | Search for understanding the natural world using inquiry and experimentation.
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