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Unit one science
Metric systems and vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is environmental science? | The study of how nature works and how humans interact with it |
| What is hypothesis's definition? | A proposed explanation for a phenomenon that is based on a observation and can be tested through experimentation |
| What is data? | A collection of facts, numbers, symbols or observations that can be analyzed. |
| What is the conclusion? | The final summary of experiments result and what those findings mean. |
| What Is the control group? | A standard baseline in an experiment or study that does not receive the test treatment or intervention. |
| What is the experimental group? | The set of participants or subject in a research study that resive the specific treatment, intervention of independent variable being tested. |
| What is the independent variable? | A factor that researchers changes, controls or manipulates in an experiment. |
| What is the dependent variable? | The factor you measure or observe or measure in an experiment to see how it responds to changes made by the independent variable. |
| What does Observation mean? | The active gathering of information from the natural world using our senses or scientific instruments. |
| What is an Inference? | An educated guess or logical conclusion that you draw based on evidence data and prior knowledge. |
| What is an Qualitative Observation? | Focuses on characteristics, categories and thematic patterns |
| What is an Quantitative Observation? | Focuses on measurable variable, counts and statistical testing |
| What is Objective's definition? | True for everyone independent of personal ias and verified through data or observation. |
| What is Subjectives definition? | Dependent on a specific persons point of view, taste, and emotional experience. |
| What is a meter? | basic unit of length (1) |
| What is a gram? | Basic unit, metric unit of mass and weight equal to one |
| What is a Liter? | Basic unit, metric unit of volume. |
| What is a kilo? | A metric unit of mass equal to 1thousand grams |
| What is a Centi? | 1 hundredth (0.01) of a gram |
| What is a milli? | 1 thousandth of a gram(0.001) |
| What is length? | The measurement of an object from one end to another |
| What is mass? | The amount of matter or substance that makes up an object |
| What is volume? | The amount of space an object takes up |
| What is Density? | How close the molecules are inside an object |
| What is the geosphere? | The geosphere is the scientific study of the solid parts of Earth, including the rocks, minerals, landforms, and interior layers from the surface down to the center of the core |
| What is the hydrosphere? | The total amount of water found under and above the serface of the planet. |
| What is the Amosphere? | A layer of glasses surrnding a planet or other celestial body held in place by that body's gravitie |
| What is the Biosphere? | Gloal ecological system composed of all living organisms and the physical environments where life exists. |
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| List the steps to the scientific method in order | 1 observe and discribe a phenomenon 2 formulate a hypothisis, 3 disign a perform an experiment to test the hypothisis 4 anylize the data, 5 draw a conclusion, repeat the process withh a new focus. |
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