topic 2

Question 1

theories

Answer 1

unifying explanations of the natural world, well supported and widely accepted

Question 2

observatiosn

Answer 2

collected from qualitative/quantitative data, when repeatedly confirmed = facts

Question 3

inductive reasoning

Answer 3

generalizations made through repeated obervations

Question 4

forming hypotheses

Answer 4

proposed explanation for a set of observations, leads to testable predctions

Question 5

testing hypotheses

Answer 5

deductive reasoning (if/then) to make specific predictions that may falsify a hypothesis in a controlled experiment

Question 6

why are experiments necessary

Answer 6

to determine if the effect is correlation or causation