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Science Flashcards
flashcards for learning the scienctific Process
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What do scientists do? | scientists make sense of naure & improve our world through observation and experimentation. |
| define obsevation. | Observation- recognizing and nothing some FACT to gather information about the world. Observation must be specific and accurate, not relative, so that it means the same to everyone. Example: incorrect- the burning bag smelled similar to rotten eggs. |
| How do you make observations? | You make observation using your fivesense: see, touch, taste,Listen, smell (remember never touch or taste an unknown substance) |
| Name & Describe the 2 types of observation. | Obsevation can qualitative or quantitive. |
| Give an example of each type of obsevation. | Qualitative observations-factual desciptions that do use numbers. Examples:Mr.Jones has blue eyes. Quantitative observations- factual descriptions that do use numbers. Example:Mr.Jones has two eyes. |
| define inference | Infenece-a possible explanation or guess about an observation |
| Give and example of inference. | Example: you leave the movie theater and see the ground is wet so you infer that it rained. |
| define Prediction | make a forecast |
| define classify | Group by similar characteristics |
| define qualitative observation | Use ou sense to gather information |
| define quatiative observation | measure to get information |
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