Scientific Inquiry

Science is...(more than one answer)

• The use of evidence to construct testable explanations and predictions of natural phenmena

• The use of the knowledge generated through this process (scientific method)

• The use of laws to determine new ideas

• not a very interesting topic and avoided at all cost

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When making observations you use your senses like...(more than one answer)

• touch

• smell

• sight

• frowning

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When you apply what you know to a new problem it is called....

• conclusion

• inference(s)

• theory

• ethics

What is the first step in scientific method?

• conclusion

• research

• data

• initial observation

When a hypothesis is tested over and over and the results are the same proving it and it is accepted by your peers, it is called....

• observations of results

• theory

• hypothesis

• conclusion

Once you have settled on your hypothesis the next step would be....

• procedures/method

• data

• research

• observations

Something like gravity is known as a...

• theory

• hypothesis

• conclusion

• law

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As a serious scientist you have tested your hypothesis over and over, your conclusion is that it is correct. Now, you share it with the world so that other scientists can test it and share their findings.

• law

• peer review

• ethics

• inferences

The information collected during the experiment

• observations

• observations of results

• data

• procedures/method

ethics is .....(more than one answer)

• moral principles that govern a person's behavior.

• a new scientific method

• moral principles that govern a person's way of conducting an activity

• a type of scientific study...ethicology

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