Biology Chapter 1 Review

an organized way of gathering & analyzing evidence about the natural world

• science

• observation

• inference

• hypothesis

• controlled experiment

the act of noticing & describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way

• science

• observation

• inference

• hypothesis

• controlled experiment

a logical interpretation based on what scientists already know

• science

• observation

• inference

• hypothesis

• controlled experiment

a scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it

• science

• observation

• inference

• hypothesis

• controlled experiment

an experiment where all variables are kept unchanged, except one that you want to test

• science

• observation

• inference

• hypothesis

• controlled experiment

factor you purposely change in an experiment

• independent/manipulated variable

• dependent/responding variable

factor that may change in response to the one you purposely changed

• independent/manipulated variable

• dependent/responding variable

part of your experiment that is exposed to the same conditions as the other, except for the independent variable

• control group

• experimental group

• test group

the type of data that includes numbers

• quantitative data

• qualitative data

the type of data that DOES NOT include numbers

• quantitative data

• qualitative data