Understanding Science

What is Science?

• the investigation and exploration of natural events and of the new information that results from those investigations.

• the act of using one or more of your senses to gather information and taking note of what occurs

• a logical explanation of an observation drawn from prior knowledge or experience

• a practical use of scientific knowledge, especially for industrial or commercial use

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Which is NOT a branch of Science?

• Life

• Physical

• Matter

• Earth

What is an observation?

• the investigation and exploration of natural events and of the new information that results from those investigations

• a logical explanation of an observation drawn from prior knowledge or experience.

• the act of using one or more of your senses to gather information and taking note of what occurs

• a possible explanation for an observation that can be tested by scientific investigations

What is an inference?

• the act of using one or more of your senses to gather information and taking note of what occurs

• a logical explanation of an observation drawn from prior knowledge or experience.

• a possible explanation for an observation that can be tested by scientific investigations

• a practical use of scientific knowledge, especially for industrial or commercial use

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What is a hypothesis ?

• a logical explanation of an observation drawn from prior knowledge or experience.

• the act of using one or more of your senses to gather information and taking note of what occurs.

• a practical use of scientific knowledge, especially for industrial or commercial use

• a possible explanation for an observation that can be tested by scientific investigations

What is technology?

• A rule that describes a pattern in nature

• a practical use of scientific knowledge, especially for industrial or commercial use

• a possible explanation for an observation that can be tested by scientific investigations

• an explanation of observations or events that is based on knowledge gained from many observations and investigations.

What is a scientific theory?

• biology , the study of living things

• A rule that describes a pattern in nature

• an explanation of observations or events that is based on knowledge gained from many observations and investigations.

• matter and energy ; It includes both physics and chemistry.

What is a scientific law?

• A rule that describes a pattern in nature

• biology , the study of living things

• an explanation of observations or events that is based on knowledge gained from many observations and investigations.

• a practical use of scientific knowledge, especially for industrial or commercial use

Why is it important to use safe practices when performing labs?

• So potential hazards can be avoided

• So potential hazards can happen

• so you can eat the lab

What is studied in Life Science?

• the investigations of rocks, soils, oceans, the atmosphere, and surface features of Earth.

• matter and energy ; It includes both physics and chemistry

• biology , the study of living things

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