Chapter 1.2 The Scientific Approach: Developing a Model Flashcards
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The Scientific Method
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process involving creativity and experiments directed towards finding a discovery
2
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Observations
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Facts our ideas must explain
Uses data because it is quantitative
3
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Natural Law
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when the same experiment gets the same results over and over but no one knows why
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Hypothesis
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Proposal made to explain and observation, can be incorrect, must be resable by experiment
If hypothesis is wrong, it must/can be changed or revised
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Experiment
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set of steps to test a hypothesis
contains at least two variables
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Variables
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quantities that can have more than one value
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Controlled
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measures the effects of one variable while keeping all other variables constant
must be reproducible
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Model
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- theories based on experiments tested to prove hypotheses about observations
- explanation of how something occurs
- simplified representation of some aspect of nature that we used to predict related phenomena
