Biology Ch. Vocabulary Test

What is science

• Latin word that means knowledge

• an organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world

• an unorganized way of collecting and analyzing evidence about the unnatural world

• important variables that are collected and deliberately gathered

What is sciencia?

• the Latin word meaning knowledge

• the Italian word meaning knowledge

• the Latin word that means all knowing

• the Italian word meaning all knowing

What is observation?

• a controlled experiment

• a scientific way of describing observations

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

• a way of figuring out processes

What is inference?

• the hypothesis of collected data

• a group of data that is collected over time

• an independent variable used for experiments

• the logical interpretation based on what scientists already know

What is hypothesis?

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

• a scientific way for observations to be tested and rejected

• a nonscientific observation that is unable to be tested

• collecting data that can be turned into data for experiments

What is controlled experiment?

• an experiment where there are two variables

• an experiment where there is more than one variable

• an experiment with three variables are changed

• an experiment in which only one variable is changed

what is independent variable?

• a factor in an uncontrolled experiment that deals with the changing environment

• a factor in a controlled experiment that is deliberately changed

• a factor in an uncontrolled experiment that never changes

• a factor in controlled experiment that cannot change

What is dependent variable?

• a variable that is observed and that changes in response to the independent variable

• a variable that is never observed

• a variable that is observed and that never changes in response to the independent variable

• a variable that is never observed but changes in response to the dependent variable

What is control group?

• a group in an experiment that is exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group along with many dependent variables

• a group in an experiment that is exposed to several conditions as the experimental group

• a group in an experiment that is not exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group

• a group in an experiment that is exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group except for one independent variable

What is data?

• evidence, a collection of information from the variable

• evidence, information gathered from observations

• evidence collected from what we think

• evidence, information gathered from the hypothesis