What Is Science? Flashcards
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What is science?
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An organized way of using evidence to learn about the natural world
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What is the goal of science?
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Investigate and understand the natural world
Explain events
Make useful predictions
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What is observation?
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The process of gathering information, or data, in an organized way
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What is quantitative data?
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Expressed by numbers, obtained by counting or measuring
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What is qualitative data?
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Data expressed by descriptions and characteristics
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What is data used for?
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To make inferences, or interpretations based join prior knowledge
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What is a hypothesis?
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A proposed scientific explanation for a set of observations. It is tested to prove whether it was correct or not
