Chapter 1 Vocabulary

Information collected from careful study of a subject is

• Science

• Research

• Psuedoscience

• Evidence

A model in science is

• A person who poses for an artist

• The undesired outcome of a decision

• A representation of an object or process

• A way of learning about the natural world

to be arranged in an orderly way is to be

• Opinionated

• Scientific

• Simple

• Organized

A sample is

• A portion of something that s used to represent the whole thing

• information collected from careful study of a subject

• A representation of an object or process

• Arranged in an orderly way

A way of learning about the natural world is

• Observing

• Scientific Inquiry

• Science

• Scientific Literacy

Using one or more of your senses to gather information is

• Observing

• Science

• Bias

• Nonmetal

A ______ observation deals with numbers

• Qualitative

• Quantitative

A ________ observations deals with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers

• Qualitative

• Quantitative

Grouping items that are alike some in some way is

• Organized

• Replication

• Classifying

• Predicting

When you explain or interpret things you observe is to

• Observe

• Classify

• Hypothesis

• Infer