Question | Answer |
A way of learning about the natural world including all of the knowledge gained by exploration. | Science |
Using one or more of your senses to gather information. | Observing |
This kind of observation deals with numbers. | Quantatative |
This kind of observation deals with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers. | Qualatative |
When you explain or interpret the things you observe. This is not guessing, but is based on reasoning from what you already know. | Inferring |
Making a statement or claim about what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence. | Predicting |
Grouping together of items that are alike in some way. | Classifying |
Involves comparing observations and data to reach a conclusion. | Evaluating |
Involves creating representations of complex objects or processes. | Making models |
A factor that is changed in an experiment to test the hypothesis. | Independent variable |
The factor that changes in response to the independent variable. It is the factor being measured in the experiment. | Dependent variable |
The things that stay the same in an experiment. | Constants |
An attitude in science that scientists display when they want to know more about a topc. | Curiosity |
Reporting your observations and results truthfully. | Honesty |
An attitude scientists have when they come up with inventive ways to solve problems or produce new things. | Creativity |
Scientists need to be open-minded, but should also have an attitude of doubt to keep them from accepting ideas that might be untrue. This is known as? | Skepticism |
Scientists need a strong sense of ______, which refers to rules that enable people to know right from wrong. | Ethics |
______comes from a person's likes and dislike. | Personal bias |
This bias stems from a person's culture in which a person grows up. For example a culture may regard snakes as bad might overlook how well snakes control pests. | Cultural bias |
This is a mistake in the design of an experiment that makes a particular result more likely. | Experimental bias |
Being _____means that you make decisions and draw conclusions based on available evidence. | Objective |
Being______means that personal feelings have entered into a decision or conclusion. | Subjective |
Explaining things by starting with a general idea and then applying the idea to a specific observation. | Deductive reasoning |
Using specific observations to make generalizations. | Inductive reasoning |
A measurement system based on the number 10 used around the world. | Metric system |
Modern scientists use this version of the metric system. | International System of Units (SI) |
SI unit for length | Meter (m) |
SI unit for mass, which is the amount of matter in an object. | Gram (g) |
This a measure of the forge of gravity acting on an object. | Weight |
The amount of space an object or substance takes up. | Volume |
The SI unit for measuring the volume of a rectangular solid. | Cubic meter (cm3) |
The SI unit for measuring liquid volume. | Liter (L) |
To calculate the volume of a rectangular solid you use that formula? | LxWxH=cm3 |
The measure of how much mass is contained in a given volume. | Density |
Density if calculated using the following formula? | D=Mass/Volume |
In addition to the Celsius scale, scientists sometimes use another scale called the? | Kelvin (K) |
The SI unit used to measure time. | second (s) |
A possible answer to a scientific question. | Hypothesis |