What Is Science? - Cornell Notes Flashcards

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Name the 3 goals of science.

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  1. ) To investigate and understand the natural world
  2. ) To explain events in the natural world
  3. ) To use those explanations to make useful predictions
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Science deals only with the _____ world.

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Natural

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Scientists ____ and _____ information in a careful and orderly way, looking for ______ and connections between events.

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Collect, organize, patterns

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Scientists propose __________ that can be _____ by examining evidence.

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Explanations, tested

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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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