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Kendric study cards
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Science | A way of learning more about the Nature world. |
| Scientific theory | An attempt to explain a pattern observed repeatedly in the natural world. |
| Scientific law | A rule that describes a pattern in Nature. |
| Technology | Practical use of science, or applied scenice. |
| System | Collection of structure, cycles, and processes that relate to and interact with each other. |
| Earth science | The study of matter and energy. |
| Hypothesis | A reasonable and educated possible answer based on what you know and what you observed. |
| Infer | To draw a conclusion based on what you observed. |
| Controlled experment | Changing one factor and observing it's effort on another while keeping all other constant. |
| Variable | Factors that can be changed in a experiment. |
| Constant | Factors that are not changed in an experiment. |
| Dependent | It's the factor measured or observed during an experiment. |
| Independent | Is the factor that you want to test. |
| Model | Any representation of an object or an event used as a tool for understanding the natural world. |
| Physical model | Model that you can see and touch. |
| Idea | Describes how someone thinks about something in the natural world. |
| Description | Is a spoken or written summary of observation. |
| Explanation | Is an interpretation of observation. |
| Internation system of units | Internatinally accepted system for measurment. |
| Precision | Description of how similar or close measurment are to each other. |
| Accuracy | Description of how close a measurment is to an accepted or true value. |
| Critical thinking | Combing what you already know with the new facts that you are given to decide if you should agree with something or not. |
| Purpose and ask questions | |
| Reaserch | |
| Hypthesis | |
| Experiment | |
| Data and anliysis | |
| Draw conclusion |