8th Grade Part 1 Vocabulary QUIZ

___________ is a way of learning about the natural world. The knowledge gained through exploration.

• Observation

• Reading

• Science

Using one or more of your senses to gather information.

• Evaluating

• Predicting

• Observing

Deals with numbers and amounts

• Qualitative observation

• Quantitative Observation

• Observing

Deals with descriptions that are not numbers. Example: Feeling that a person's head is hot.

• Evaluating

• Quantitative observation

• Qualitative observation

Grouping together items that are alike in some way

• Evaluating

• Predicting

• Classifying

When you explain or interpret things in which you've observed

• Predicting

• Inferring

• Evaluating

Making a statement or claim about what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence.

• Predicting

• Guessing

• Psychic

When you are evaluating observations and data to reach a conclusion about them.

• Predicting

• Analyzing

• Classifying

Having an attitude of doubt

• Grumpy

• Subjective

• Skepticism

When data is collected in a precise, logical and consistent manner, the data is considered

• Precise data

• Empirical data

• Emporer's data