Biology - Chapter 1 Vocabulary

formally defined as the use of evidence to construct testable explanations and predictions of natural phenomena

• science

• bias

• observation

• experiment

the act of noticing and describing events or processes

• observation

• inference

• control

• theory

logical interpretation based on what scientists already know

• inference

• theory

• bias

• variable

a tentative scientific explanation that can be tested by further observation or experimentation

• theory

• hypothesis

• science

• All of these

experiment in which all other variables are kept unchanged

• controlled

• independent

• dependent

• group

variable that is deliberately changed

• independent

• dependent

• control

• conclusion

changes in response to the independent variable

• hypothesis

• theory

• dependent variable

• experiment

exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group except for changed in the independent variable

• control group

• dependent variable

• conclusion

• inference

information gathered by scientists

• data

• theories

• hypotheses

• experiments

quantitative data

• numbers

• not numbers