What is Science? (reading) Flashcards
Early seekers of understanding
Natural philosophers
Provides understanding through experimental evidence
Scientific investigation
At least 3 different activities seem to be familiar to scientists.
Collecting observations, developing explanations, and testing explanations.
(concept) can come from the results of experiments from an uneducated guess or just from imaginative thinking.
Explanations
An explanation in an early stage of development.
Hypothesis
A re-creation of an event or occurrence in a way that enables a scientist to support or disprove a hypothesis.
Experiment
Compares 2 situations that have all the influencing factors identical except one.
Controlled variable
The situation used as the basis of comparison
Control group
The other situation was used as the basis of comparison.
Experimental group
The single influencing factor that is allowed to be different in the experimental group.
Experimental variable
“If anything can go wrong, it will.”
Murphy’s law
Type of relationship that seems to exist between the cost of a houseplant and how long it lives.
Law of houseplant longevity
A description of a theory or idea that accounts for all known properties.
Model
An explanation or idea based on speculation or trivial grounds without any real evidence.
Conjecture
A broad and working hypothesis that is based on experimental evidence.
Theory
