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Question 1

What is the goal of science

Answer 1

To investigate and an organized way of using evidence to learn about the natural world

Question 2

What is science

Answer 2

An organized way of using evidence to learn about the natural world

Question 3

What is observation

Answer 3

The process of gathering information about events or processes in a carefully and orderly way

Question 4

Quantitive data

Answer 4

Includes numbers

Question 5

Qualitative data

Answer 5

Characteristics that cannot be easily measured or counted

Question 6

What is an inference

Answer 6

A logical interpretation based on prior knowledge or experience

Question 7

What is a hypothesis

Answer 7

A proposed scientific explanation for a set of observations

Question 8

What are three ways from which hypotheses may arise

Answer 8

Logical inference
Prior knowledge
Informed, creative imagination

Question 9

What do scientists assume about the

Answer 9

That it is a system or a collection of parts and processes that interact

Question 10

What are some qualities that are desirable in a scientist

Answer 10

Open minded, skeptical

Question 11

The idea that life can arise from nonliving matter is called

Answer 11

Spontaneous generation

Question 12

What are variables in an experiment

Answer 12

Factors that can change

Question 13

How many variables should an experiment test at

Answer 13

One

Question 14

When he variables kept on change in an experiment it is

Answer 14

Controlled variable

Question 15

What is a controlled experiment

Answer 15

An experiment where one variable is changed at a time

Question 16

Manipulated variable

Answer 16

The variable that is deliberately changed

Question 17

Responding variable

Answer 17

The variable that is observed and that changes in response to the manipulated variable

Question 18

For what do scientists use the data from a controlled experiment

Answer 18

To see the outcome of the experiment and to test the hypothesis

Question 19

When scientists look for explanations for specific observations, what do they assume about nature

Answer 19

The patterns in nature are consistent

Question 20

Why do scientists assumed that experimental results can be reproduced

Answer 20

Nature behaves in a constant matter

Question 21

What did Anton van Leeuwenhoek discover

Answer 21

Tiny animals

Question 22

In animal field studies, why do scientists usually try to work without making the animals aware that humans are present

Answer 22

So that the animals are not disturbed

Question 23

When a controlled experiment is not possible, why do scientists try to identify as many relevant variables as possible

Answer 23

So that small differences do not produce miss leading results

Question 24

The theory that new organisms come from existing organisms is called

Answer 24

Biogenesis

Question 25

In science, what is a theory

Answer 25

A particular hypothesis that is very well supported

Question 26

Discovery science

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Observe, measure, describe

Question 27

Inductive reasoning

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Derives the general principles from specific observations

Question 28

Deductive reasoning

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Uses general principles to predict specific outcomes

Question 29

Constants

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Factors kept the same for all trials

Question 30

Control group

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Factor being tested is absent, or is the normal value

Question 31

Independent variable

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The factor you change, what you do to your experiment

Question 32

Dependent variable

Answer 32

What happens as a result of that treatment, what you are measuring