Unit 1 Nature of Science Vocabulary

Empirical Evidence:

• a description of a specific relationship under given conditions in the natural world.
• A testable idea or explanation that leads to scientific investigations
• The observations, measurements and other types of data that people gather and test to support and evaluate scientific explanation
• Process of obtaining information by using the sences

Theory

• The explanation for some phenomenom that is based on observation, experimentation and reasoning.
• a description of a specific relationship under given conditions in the natural world.
• A testable idea or explanation that leads to scientific investigations
• Information gathered by observation or experimentation that can be used in calculating or reasoning

Law

• A testable idea or explanation that leads to scientific investigations
• An organized procedure to study something under controlled conditions
• Information gathered by observation or experimentation that can be used in calculating or reasoning
• a description of a specific relationship under given conditions in the natural world.

Experimental

• An organized procedure to study something under controlled conditions
• A testable idea or explanation that leads to scientific investigations
• Process of obtaining information by using the sences
• Information gathered by observation or experimentation that can be used in calculating or reasoning

Hypothesis

• An organized procedure to study something under controlled conditions
• A testable idea or explanation that leads to scientific investigations
• The factor that is deliberately manipulated (The cause)
• Process of obtaining information by using the sences

Dependent variable

• An organized procedure to study something under controlled conditions
• The factor that changes as a result of manipulation of a variable (The effect)
• a description of a specific relationship under given conditions in the natural world.
• The factor that is deliberately manipulated (The cause)

Independent Variable

• The factor that is deliberately manipulated (The cause)
• An organized procedure to study something under controlled conditions
• The factor that changes as a result of manipulation of a variable (The effect)
• A testable idea or explanation that leads to scientific investigations

Observations

• Information gathered by observation or experimentation that can be used in calculating or reasoning
• An organized procedure to study something under controlled conditions
• The factor that changes as a result of manipulation of a variable (The effect)
• Process of obtaining information by using the sences

Data

• Information gathered by observation or experimentation that can be used in calculating or reasoning
• A pattern, plan, representation, or description designed to show the structure of workings of an object, system or concept.
• An organized procedure to study something under controlled conditions
• The factor that changes as a result of manipulation of a variable (The effect)

Model

• A pattern, plan, representation, or description designed to show the structure of workings of an object, system or concept.
• A table used to compare the features of multiple items, such as technological products or solutions
• Information gathered by observation or experimentation that can be used in calculating or reasoning
• The application of science for practical purposes