Unit 1 The Nature of Science

Correct in all details; exact; free from mistakes or errors

• Data
• Accurate
• Inaccurate
• Predict

A careful preservation and protection of something; planned management of a natural resource to prevent exploitation, pollution, destruction, or neglect

• Recycling
• Conservation
• Competition
• Flourishes

The collected results of an experiment or other investigation; may include numbers (quantitative data) or descriptive observations (qualitative data)

• Predict
• Reliable
• Dependent Variable
• Data

The event studied and expected to change when the independent variable is changed

• Dependent Variable
• Control
• Variations
• Independent Variable

The controlled event that is intentionally changed to observe its effect on the dependent variable

• Dependent Variable
• Control
• Variations
• Independent Variable

The extent to which a given set of measurements of the same sample agree with their mean

• Predict
• Precision
• Accuracy
• None of these

Anticipate on the basis of observation, experience, or scientific reason

• Predict
• Precise
• Preserve
• All of these

Giving the same result on successive trials

• Reliable
• Relateable
• Accurate
• Data