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NOS Vocab
Term | Definition |
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science | is the investigation and exploration of natural events and of the new information that results form those investigations |
observation | is using one or more of your senses to gather information and take note of what occurs |
inference | is logical explanation of an observation that is drawn form prior knowledge or experience |
hypothesis | A possible explanation about an observation that can be tested by scientific investigations . |
technology | The practical use of scientific knowledge ,especially for industrial or commercial. |
scientific theory | is an explanation of observation or events based on knowledge gained from many observation and investigation. |
scientific law | Scientific law are different from societal laws,are agreements on a set of behaviors. |
Critical thinking | is comparing what you already know with the information you are given in older to decide whether you agree with it |
description | is a spoken or written summary of observations. |
explanation | is an interpretation of observations. |
Accuracy | is a description of how close a measurement is to an accepted or true value |
precision | is a description of how similar or close measurements are each other. |
variable | is any factor in an experiment that can have more than one value |
dependent variable | is the factor measured or observed during an experiment. |
independent variable | is the factor that you want to test.Its is changed by the investigator to observe how it affects a dependent variable. |
constants | are the factors in experiment that remain the same |
Significant digits | are the number of digits in a measurements that know with certain degree of reliability. |
International System of units (SI). | it adopted an internationally accepted system for lmeasurement called . |