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Ch. 1 Vocabulary
Vocabulary for Ch. 1: About Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| an orderly method of gaining, organizing, and applying new knowledge | Scientific Method |
| a close agreement by competent observers of a series of observations of the same phenomena | Fact |
| an educated guess; a reasonable explanation of an observation or experimental result that is not fully accepted as factual until tested over and over again by experiment | Hypothesis |
| a general hypothesis or statement about the relationship of natural quantities that has been tested over and over again and has not been contradicted. also known as a principle | Law |
| a general hypothesis or statement about the relationship of natural quantities that has been tested over and over again and has not been contradicted. also known as a law | Principle |
| a synthesis of a large body of information that encompasses well-tested and verified hypotheses about aspects of the natural world | Theory |