What is Science?

Observations made with instruments such as rulers, balances, graduated cylinders, beakers, and thermometers. The results are measurable.

• qualitative observation

• quantitative observation

• inferring

• predicting

• experiment

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Categorizing something or someone into a certain group or system based on certain characteristics.

• classifying

• scientific theory

• predicting

• inferring

• experiment

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A statement about a future event. In science this is based upon experience or knowledge.

• qualitative observation

• quantitative observation

• inferring

• predicting

• experiment

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To figure something out from evidence and reasoning rather than from a direct statement.

• classifying

• scientific theory

• predicting

• inferring

• experiment

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You use your senses to observe the results. (Sight, smell, touch, taste and hear.) It may also involve the recording of data.

• qualitative observation

• quantitative observation

• inferring

• predicting

• scientific theory

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A scientific process to make a discovery, prove an idea, or demonstrate a scientific fact.

• qualitative observation

• quantitative observation

• inferring

• scientific theory

• experiment

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Knowledge about the natural world that is based on facts learned through experiments and observation.

• quantitative observation

• experiment

• science

• scientific theory

• qualitative observations

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An explanation of why things work or how things happen. This idea is also different from a hypothesis because it is not a guess.  It is also different from a law because a law describes observations and results of experiments.

• science

• scientific theory

• classifying

• inferring

• predicting

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