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Scientific inquiry's
Scientific inquiry's and thinking like a scientist
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What skills do scientists use to learn about the world | Inferring, Predicting, Classifying, and Making Models |
| Quantitive observations deal with | Numbers |
| Qualitative observations deal with | Descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers |
| Inferring is | Explaning or interpreting the things you observe |
| Predicting is | Making a forecast of what will happen in the future based on past evidence of expirience |
| classifying is | A process of grouping together items that are alike in some way |
| Making Models is | creating representations of complex objects or processes |
| Science is | a way of learning about the natural world |
| skepticism is | having an additude of doubt |
| Scientific inquiry refers | to diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world |
| hypothesis is | a possible explanation for a set of observations or answer to a scientific question |
| variables are | all factors that can change in a expirment |
| manipulated variable | the variable that is purposely changed to test |