Introduction to Science

What is biology?

• The study of non-living organisms

• The study of living organisms

• The study of rocks and minerals

• The study of weather patterns

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What is the independent variable in an experiment?

• The one thing that you are testing or changing in the experiment

• The thing you are measuring in an experiment

• Factors in an experiment that will stay the same

• An explanation of what you think the results of the experiment will be

What is the dependent variable in an experiment?

• The one thing that you are testing or changing in the experiment

• The one thing that you are measuring in an experiment

• Factors in an experiment that will stay the same

• An explanation of what you think the results of the experiment will be

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What is a control group in an experiment?

• The one thing that you are testing or changing in the experiment

• The one thing that you are measuring in an experiment

• Factors in an experiment that will stay the same

• An explanation of what you think the results of the experiment will be

What is qualitative data?

• Describes something using words (in the form of observations)

• Describes something using numbers (in the form of measurements)

• Gathering information for research using one of your five senses

• A conclusion based on research, evidence, and reasoning

What is quanitative data?

• Describes something using words (in the form of observations)

• Describes something using numbers (in the form of measurements)

• Gathering information for research using one of your five senses

• A conclusion based on research, evidence, and reasoning

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What is a hypothesis?

• the study of living organisms

• the act of gathering research for an experiment

• explains what you think the results of the experiment will be (a prediction based on facts)

• a conclusion based on research, evidence, and reasoning

What is an observation?

• the one thing that you are testing or changing in the experiment

• gathering information for research using one of your five senses

• a prediction based on facts

• a conclusion based on research, evidence, and reasoning

What is an inference?

• a conclusion based on research, evidence, and reasoning

• gathering information for research using one of your five senses

• explains what you think the results of the experiment will be

• describe something using numbers (in the form of measurements)

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What is the process or method of research that scientists use to study the world around them?

• scientific method

• lab experiments

• analytical data

• biology

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