Earth Science Chapter 1

1. Any information scientists collect by observing nature. 

• Data

• Descriptive data

• Measured data

• Presupposition

Data that is created from other base data

• Descriptive data

• Derived data

• Measured data

• Relative data

Scientific models must be

• Complicated

• Constant

• Unaltered

• Workable

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

1. This form of science investigates things that have happened in the unobservable past.

• Earth Science

• Historical Science

• Operational Science

• Theory

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

1. Data that is a scientist's observed or written description.

• Descriptive data

• Measured data

• Models

• Law

This is model that describes how phenomena relate to each other in a predictable way. 

• Law

• Model

• Theory

• Worldview

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

1. This form of science investigates events and facts that can be observed in the present. 

• Earth Science

• Historical Science

• Operational Science

• Worldview

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

This form of data consists of numbers or units

• Descriptive data

• Law

• Measured data

• Theory

Beliefs that cannot be proven to be true

• Law

• Presupposition

• Theory

• Worldview

A model that explains a set of observations

• Data

• Law

• Theory

• Worldview