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Science Flashcards
These's are flash cards to help you understand the scienctific stuff and more.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What do scientists do? | scientists make sense of nature & improve our world through observation and expirementation. |
| Define Observation. | OBSERVATION-recognizing and noting some FACT to gather infomation about the world. Obsrvations must be specific an accurate, not relative, so that it means the sam to everyone. EXAMPLE: incorrect-burning th bag smelld nasty.Correct-the burning bag smelled |
| How to do you make and observation? | You make an observation using your five senses: See,Touch,Taste,Listen,Smell. (Remember never touch an unknown substance.) |
| Name & Describe th 2 typs of observations? | Observations can be Qualitative or Quantitative. |
| Give an example of each type of observation. | Qualitative observations-factual description that do Not use numbers. Example: Mr. Johns has blue eyes.Quantitave observation-Factual dscription Example: Mr. Jones has two eyes. |
| define Inference. | INFERENCE-a possible explanation or guess about an observation. |
| Give an example of inference. | example: you leave the movie theater and see th groud is wet so you infer that it rained. |
| Define Prediction? | Make a Focast |