Chap 1-3: Inquiry Skills

Question 1

What is an Observation?

Answer 1

Is information from your senses

To observe is to look at carefully

Question 2

What is an inference?

Answer 2

It is an untested conclusion based on your observations or prior knowledge.

Question 3

What is to predict?

Answer 3

Using your knowledge to make a guess

Question 4

What is to compare?

Answer 4

Describe how things are different and the same.

Question 5

What is to classify?

Answer 5

To sort based on similarities

Question 6

Why do you use numbers in science?

Answer 6

Numbers in the lab help scientists be accurate / exact / precise

Question 7

Why do you formulate or use models?

Answer 7

We create models to help us understand how something works and we can make changes to those models.

Question 8

What does measuring do?

Answer 8

It allows you to compare your results to others.

Question 9

What is a hypothesis?

Answer 9

an IDEA that could explain how something works.

Question 10

What is an experiment?

Answer 10

It’s a TEST to try out a theory or to see the effect of something.

Question 11

What is the Scientific method and explain the steps?

Answer 11

It’s a way that scientists find out how things work and affect each over.

The 5 steps help test ideas:

1-OBSERVE and ASK questions
2-Form a HYPOTHESIS
3-PLAN an EXPERIMENT
4-CONDUCT an EXPERIMENT
5-Draw CONCLUSIONS