Nature of Science

An Educated Guess

• hypothesis

• observation

• experiment

• variable

the use of scientific methods to test a hypothesis

• hypothesis

• observation

• experiment

• variable

A prediction that can only be supported or not supported by scientific experimentation.

• hypothesis

• theory

• law

Explains something we see in the natural world that has been verified through repeated experiments or testing.

• hypothesis

• law

• theory

A ___ is observed and describes in the natural world what appears to always be true.

• hypothesis

• theory

• law

Explains HOW nature works.

• hypothesis

• theory

• law

Help us understand laws.

• hypothesis

• theory

• another law

Describes What nature does

• hypothesis

• theory

• law

Happens under very specific conditions in nature.

• hypothesis

• theory

• law

A theory can be supported by enough empirical evidence to become a law.

• True...with enough new empirical evidence by scientists.

• False...it can never be a law.