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Science vocabulary
Understanding Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Science | is the investigation and exploration of natural events and of the new information that results from those investigations. |
| Observation | is using one or more of your senses to information and take note of what occurs. |
| inference | is a logical explanation of an observation that is drawn from prior know ledge or experience. |
| Hypothesis | is a possible explanation about an observation that can be tested by scientific investigation. |
| Prediction | is a statement of what will happen next in a sequence of events. |
| Technology | the practical use of scientific knowledge especially for industrial or commercial. |
| Scientific theory | is an explanation of observation or events based our knowledge gained from many observations and investigations. |
| Scientific law | describes a pattern or an event in nature is always true. |
| Critical thinking | is comparing paring what you already know with the information you are given in order to decide whether you agree whit it. |
| Description | is a spoken or written summary of observations. |
| Explanation | is an interpretation of observations. |
| International System of Units (SI) | is the adopted and internationally accepted system for measurement. |
| Accuracy | is a description close a measurement is to an accepted or true |
| Precision | is a description of how similar or close measurement are to each other as shown in. |
| Signification digitts | are the number of digits in a measurement that are known with a certain degree of reliability |
| Variable | is any factor in an experiment that can have more than one value. |
| Depenvariable | The factor measured or observed during an experiment. |
| Independent variable | The factor that you want to test; changed by the investigator to observe how it affects a dependent variable. |
| Constans | The factors in an experiment that remain the same. |