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other definitions to remember!
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Theory | accepted explanation (because of repeated testing) of how/why things happen |
| Law | a statement of what always occurs under certain conditions |
| examples of Law | Law of Thermodynamics |
| Evolution | changing in allele frequency in a population over time |
| Control | concurrent trials subjected to all the same conditions except to changes in the experimental variable |
| Hypothesis | a tentative explanation a scientist proposes for a specific phenomenon that has been observed |
| Inductive Reasoning | form observation of a particular even to form a general principle |
| Deductive Reasoning | working from the general to the specific |
| Prediction | "if then" statements derived from the hypothesis |
| Basic Science | "we just want to understand how it works" |
| Applied Science | "we want to solve a problem" |
| Law of Thermodynamics | 1. Energy cannot be created or destroyed 2. Energy is lost as heat when transferred 3. Entropy in the universe is constant |