Scientists and Process Skills
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| biologist | a scientist who studies humans, plants, animals and the environments in which they live
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| ecologist | a scientist who studies the environment and the actions that affect it
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| geologist | a scientist who studies Earth and the processes that shape Earth
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| agronomist | a scientist who studies soil and crops
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| physicist | a scientist who studies matter, energy, and how they are related
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| chemist | a scientist who studies how chemicals react
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| engineer | a person who uses scientific facts to solve problems and designs and builds most of the products people use, such as bridges, cars, buildings and computers
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| observation | something you notice when you see, hear, touch, taste, or smell things
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| inference | a guess based on an observation
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| opinion | something that someone feels or believes, it cannot be proven true
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| fact | a statement you can prove true
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| scientific facts | true statements about how the world works that can be supported with experiments or tests
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| support | observations that prove a fact is true
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| analyze | to study something very closely
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| classify | to group according to a set of rules
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| predict | to say ahead of time what will happen on the basis of special knowledge
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| measure | to find the size, amount, capacity, or degree of something
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| technology | how people modify the natural world to suit their own purposes
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| design | interactive decision-making process that produces plans by which resources are converted into products and systems that meet human needs and wants or solve problems
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