Unit 1 Nature of Science

Correct in every detail

• Accurate

• Inaccurate

• Hypothesis

• Conclusion

Things you see, hear, or learn that make you believe that something exists or is true

• Evidence

• Variable

• Valid

• Infer

Based on good reason

• Valid

• Evidence

• Infer

• All of These

The part of the experiment that does not change

• Control

• Variable

• Data

• Hypothesis

To decide that something is probably true, because of what is observed

• Infer

• Data

• Control

• Hypothesis

The part of the experiment that is changed by the scientist

• Independent Variable

• Dependent Variable

• Hypothesis

• All of These

The thing that changes in the experiment, It depends on the independent variable

• Dependent Variable

• Independent Variable

• Control

• All of These

The experiment or investigation does what it is supposed to do

• Reliable

• Non-Reliable

• Precise

• None of These

Collected information, the results of an experiment or other investigation; may include numbers (quantitative data) or descriptions (qualitative data)

• Data

• Control

• Hypothesis

• Observation

An idea that can be tested by experiment or observation

• Hypothesis

• Variable

• Control

• Independent Variable