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vocab ch 1
vocabulary for chapter one
Question | Answer |
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an orderly method for gaining, organizing, and applying new knowledge | scientific method |
a close agreement by competent of observers of a series of observations in the same phenomena | fact |
an educated guess; a reasonable explanation of an observation or experimental result that is not fully accepted as 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 had not been contradicted also know as a principle | law |
a general hypothesis or statement about the realtionship of natural quantities that has been tested over and over again and had not been contradicted; also known as law | principle |
a synthesis of a large body of information that encompasses well-tested and verified hypotheses about aspects of the natural world | theory |