science test 21/9/22 Flashcards

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scientific theory

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a supported hypothesis proven multiple times and accepted by scientists

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hypothesis

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a guess of an expiriment often used with then and if
example: if you put gummybears in water then it will increase in size

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independant varible

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what is changed in the expiriment {what we change}
example: one has water, one doesnt

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dependant varible

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what changes during the expiriment, example the size of the gummy bear

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controlled varible

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what is kept the same, example the same gummy bear, the same glass etc

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control

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what we compare our results against, we compare our gummy bear with the gummy bear with water

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ethic

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conduct somethung being right or wrong.
example: is cloning animals good or bad

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qualitive

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CAN NOT be meassured using numbers

example: the colour of the sky

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quantiitive

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CAN be meassuered using numbers

example: your age,
number of goals in a football match

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Science in the media

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Sometimes the science articles on social media may be fake

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scientific journal

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scientists post there ideas and the results of there investigation/expiriment on here

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primary source

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Evidence from what you have personally tested

example: our gummybear expiriment as we tried it for ourselfs

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Secondary source

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Evidence from other scientists

example: why the sky is blue other scientists found this out.

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Bias

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favourism towards one side of a scientific debate

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realibility

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results are similar every time u test the expiriment

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sustainability

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resources available for future generations

changes we can make to help the enviroment example recycling or using loose fruits instead of fruit in plastic containers

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accuracy

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you get the exact result what you aimed for

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precision

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how close the meassurments are to one another

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accuracy and precision together

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if something is exactly the result you aimed for and its close together