Ch 1 Observation Skills

A statement or assertion of information that can be verified

• perception

• fact

• opinion

• evidence

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-6

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Relating to the application of scientific knowledge to legal questions

• forensic

• reasoning

• jury

• evidence

Conclusions drawn from assumptions and known facts

• analytical

• eyewitness

• logical

• data

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

NGSS.HS-LS4-1

NGSS.HS-PS1-2

The ability to identify a concept or problem, to isolate its component parts, to organize information for decision making, to establish criteria for evaluation, and to draw appropriate conclusions

• fact

• perception

• eyewitness

• analytical skills

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

Personal belief founded on judgement rather than on direct experience or knowledge.

• opinion

• fact

• religion

• deductive reasoning

Interpreting information received from the senses

• fact

• perception

• deductive reasoning

• opinion

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Deriving the consequences from the facts using a series of logical steps

• perception

• conclusion

• hypothesis

• deductive reasoning

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-2

A person who has seen someone or something and can communicate these facts

• eyewitness

• bystander

• professor

• dog catcher

What a person perceives using his or her senses

• fact

• opinion

• observation

• crystal ball

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

The organization that examines post-conviction cases using DNA evidence to provide conclusive proof of guilt or innocence?