BIO~Final Guide BIOLOGY Flashcards

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Involves observing and asking questions, making inferences and forming hypotheses, conducting controlled experiments, collecting and analyzing data, drawing cinclusions

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Scientific metodology

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The act of noticing and describing events or proceses in a careful , orderly way.

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Observation

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Is a logical interpretation based on what scientists already know.

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Inference

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Is a scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it.

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Hypotheses

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Is an organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about natural World

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Science

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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 ….

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Controlled experiment

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Is also called Manipulated variable ..

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Independent variable

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Also called responding variable …

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Dependent variable

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Is exposed to the same as the experimental group except for on independent variable.

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Control group

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Gathering information Is called …

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Data

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Is the data that are Numbers obtained by counting or measuring

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Quantitative data

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Are descriptive and involve characteristics that cannot usually be counted.

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Qualitative data

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“What’s that plant?

Lead to new questions

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Curiosity

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Refuse to accept explanations without evidence.

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Skepticism

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That may not agree with their hypothesis.

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Open-Mindedness

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To design experiments that yield accuarate data.

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Creativity

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Evidence from many scientific studies may support several related

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Theory