BIO~Final Guide BIOLOGY Flashcards
Involves observing and asking questions, making inferences and forming hypotheses, conducting controlled experiments, collecting and analyzing data, drawing cinclusions
Scientific metodology
The act of noticing and describing events or proceses in a careful , orderly way.
Observation
Is a logical interpretation based on what scientists already know.
Inference
Is a scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it.
Hypotheses
Is an organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about natural World
Science
A Hypotheses should be tested by an experiment in which only one variable is changed. All other variables should be kept unchanged, or controlled. This type of experiment is called ….
Controlled experiment
Is also called Manipulated variable ..
Independent variable
Also called responding variable …
Dependent variable
Is exposed to the same as the experimental group except for on independent variable.
Control group
Gathering information Is called …
Data
Is the data that are Numbers obtained by counting or measuring
Quantitative data
Are descriptive and involve characteristics that cannot usually be counted.
Qualitative data
“What’s that plant?
Lead to new questions
Curiosity
Refuse to accept explanations without evidence.
Skepticism
That may not agree with their hypothesis.
Open-Mindedness