Ecology: Environmental Science 13th Edition

They collect data and develop theories, models, and laws about how nature works.

_________ is an attempt to discover how nature works and to use that knowledge to make predictions about what is likely to happen in nature.

A possible and testable explanation of what they observe in nature or in the results of their experiments.

It is the information needed to answer their questions. To collect ______, scientists make observations and measurements.

An approximate representation or simulation of a system being studied.

A well tested and widely accepted scientific hypothesis or a group of related hypotheses is called a ____________.

An important part of the scientific process in which scientists openly publish details of the methods and models they used, the results of their experiments, and the reasoning behind their hypotheses for other scientists working in the same field to evaluate.

It is a well-tested and widely accepted description of what we find happening over and over in the same way in nature.

They are not yet considered reliable, and can be thought of as ______________. Some of these results will be validated and classified as reliable and some will be discredited and classified as unreliable.

It consists of data, hypotheses, theories, models, and laws that are widely accepted by all or most of the scientists who are considered experts in the field under study.