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