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Ch. 1 About Science
vocabulary words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| an orderly method for 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 a 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 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 law | Principle |
| a synthesis of a large body of information that encompasses well-tested and verified hypothesis about aspects of the natural world | Theory |