Scientific Inquiry

• Science means?

  a process for gaining knowledge about out world
• The 5 steps of sceintific inquiry are?

  observing, wondering, asking questions, collecting evidence, devoloping answers
• The cycle diagram of scientific inquiry involves:

  Questioning/Predicting, planning/conducting,analyzing, Evaluating, applying, communicating
• qualitative observing:

  Cant put a number on it
• observing:

  using all senses to gain information
• classifying means:

  grouping according to similar properties
• Estimating means:

  Approximate values for a measurement
• Measuring means:

  Exact values for a measurement
• Preditction means:

  What might happen
• Inference Means: an assumption based on an observation
• Hypothesis means: An explanation for an inference
• theory means: hypothesis that is supported by the results of repeated Experimentation
• experiment means: something that has to be controlled so only one variable changes at a time
• Variable means: something that can affect an experiment
• Inddependent/Manipulated variable: what is being tested
• responding/dependant variable: what is being measured as the outcome
• a control is: a test with no manipulated variable
• models are not always?

  3d
• Data is?

  numerical info gathered from an experiment
• Analyzing allows for?

  a conclusion to be made
• conclusion states?

  whether or not your results supported or did not support your hypothesis
• steps of an experiment?

  pose questions, create a testable question, create a hypothesis, test hypothesis, analyze, conclude, form new questions