unit 1 science Flashcards
the investigation and exploration of natural events and of the new info that from those invesation
scince
a process that uses a varitiety of skills and tools to answer questions or to test ideas about the natural world
scinctific inqury
an orderly set of procedures used to solve scientific promblems and answer questions
scintific meathod
gather info from prior knowledge
research
an explanation thats from prior knowledge
inference
an explanation about observation that can be tested by scientific investigations
hypthesis
a statement of what will happen next in a squence of events
prediction
4 parts of controlled expirment
control group
ind variable
de variable
constant
qualative data
when you only use words to describe and observtion
quantative data
when yiu use words and numbers to describe an observation
what is a result of SI?
advanments in technology
technology
the practical use of scientific knowledge
dealing with what is good and bad
ethics
bias
prejudice toward a specific outcome
an explanation of observations or events based on knowledge gained from many observations and investigations
scinecfic theory