6th 1.1 Skills of Science

1. _______ is a way of learning about the natural world.

•  Observing 
• Science
•  Thinking 
• Analyzing

What is a way in which scientists study the natural world?   

• scientific investigations
• scientific experiments
• scientific demonstrations
• observing their surroundings

Making _______ involves creating representations of complex objects or processes. 

•  experiments
• investigations
• models 
• evaluations

Observing, inferring, predicting, classifying, evaluating, making models, & conducting are part   

• scientific investigations
• processes of science
• skills of science

_______ involves comparing observations and data to reach a conclusion about them. 

•  Evaluating
•  Classifying
•  Inferring 
• Observing

Using one or more of your senses to gather information is called _________.  

• Evaluating
• Inferring
• Classifying
•  Observing

When you explain or interpret the things you observe, you are _________. 

• Classifying
•  Inferring
• Evaluating 
•  Predicting

__________ is the grouping together of items that are alike in some ways.  

• Organizing
• Inferring
• Classifying 
• Evaluating

What kind of observation deals with numbers, or amounts? 

•  Qualatative
• Quantitative

What kind of observation deals with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers?

• Qualitative
•  Quantitative