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T About Science ch.1
ch. 1 vocab 1-6
| 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 as factual until tested over and over again by experiment | Hypothisis |
| 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 know as law | Principal |
| a synthesis of a large body of information that encompasses well-tested and verified hypotheses about aspects of the natural world | Theory |