Unit 0 Vocab Flashcards
Also known as nutrient cycles; Describes the movement of chemical elements through different media, such as the atmosphere, soil, rocks, bodies of water, and organisms.
Biochemical Cycles
A graphical representation of information. It uses bars that extend to different heights to depict value.
Bar Graph
A final decision or judgment.
Conclusion
Something invariable or unchanging in an experiment.
Constant
Any variable that’s held constant in a research study.
Controlled Variable
The group in a study that does not include the thing being tested and is used as a benchmark to measure the results of the other group and is one of the two groups in any valid experiment.
Control Group
A kind of thinking in which you question, analyze, interpret, evaluate, and make a judgment about what you read, hear, say, or write.
Critical Thinking
A logical approach where you progress from general ideas to specific conclusions.
Deductive Reasoning
Something that depends on other factors.
Dependent Variable
The study of the relationship between physical quantities with the help of dimensions and units of measurement.
Dementional Analysis
The transformation of energy from forms provided by nature to forms that can be used by humans.
Energy Conversion
Something that is not correct.
Error
The process of carrying out research in an objective and controlled fashion so that precision is maximized and specific conclusions can be drawn regarding a hypothesis statement.
Expirimental Design
A graphical representation of discrete or continuous data.
Histogram
An assumption, an idea that is proposed for the sake of argument so that it can be tested to see if it might be true.
Hypothesis
A variable that stands alone and isn’t changed by the other variables you are trying to measure.
Indipendent Variable
A method of drawing conclusions by going from the specific to the general.
Inductive Reasoning
An idea or conclusion that’s drawn from evidence and reasoning.
Inference
A system of measurement in which the basic units are the meter , the second, and the kilogram.
Metric System
A normal biological response in which the effects of a reaction slow or stop that reaction.a normal biological response in which the effects of a reaction slow or stop that reaction.
Negative Feedback Loop
A type of statistical hypothesis that proposes that no statistical significance exists in a set of given observations.
Null Hypothesis
Something that you have learned by seeing or watching something and thinking about it.
Observations
A type of graph representing data in a circular form, with each slice of the circle representing a fraction or proportionate part of the whole.
Pie Chart
Occurs to increase the change or output: the result of a reaction is amplified to make it occur more quickly.
Positive Feedback Loop
A system of theories or assertions about the natural world that claim or appear to be scientific but that, in fact, are not.
Pseudoscience
Data representing information and concepts that are not represented by numbers.
Qualitive Data
Measures of values or counts and are expressed as numbers. data about numeric variables.
Quantitative Data
Where you measure the same thing multiple times to make your data more reliable.
Repeated Trials
The number of observations or individuals included in a study or experiment. It is the number of individuals, items, or data points selected from a larger population to represent it statistically.
Sample Size
Uses dots to represent values for two different numeric variables. The position of each dot on the horizontal and vertical axis indicates values for an individual data point.
Scatterplot
Making an observation, forming a hypothesis, making a prediction, conducting an experiment and finally analyzing the results.
Scientific Method
Using natural resources in a way that we could keep doing for a long time.
Sustainability
A group of related things that work together as a whole. These things can be real or imaginary.
System
An economic problem where the individual consumes a resource at the expense of society.
Tragedy of the Commons
MIX/DRY
Manipulated
Indipendant
X-axis
Dependent
Responsive
Y-axis
