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Mr. Shultz Chapter 1
Chapter 1: What is life science?
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a way of learning about the natural world? | Science |
| What 5 skills do scientists use to learn more about the world? | Observing, inferring, predicting, classifying, and making models |
| What is it called when you use one or more of your senses to gather information? | Observing |
| What type of observation deals with numbers or amounts? | Quantitative |
| What type of observation deals with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers? | Qualitative |
| What is it called when you explain or interpret the things you observe? | Inferring |
| What is it called when you make a forecast of what will happen in the future based on past experiences or evidence? | Predicting |
| What is the process of grouping together items that are alike in some way called? | Classifying |
| What involves creating representations of complex objects or processes? | Making models |
| What is the study of living things? | Life science |