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based on facts

• objective thinking

• subjective thinking

• inductive reasoning

• life science

based on opinions and personal feelings that cannot be proven true or false

• objective thinking

• subjective thinking

• life science

• earth and space science

involves making a generalization from a specific observation

• life science

• inductive reasoning

• physical science

• scientific law

useful testing a hypothesis because it is a way to explain observations

• inductive reasoning

• scientific law

• deductive reasoning

• earth and space science

the study of all living things, including plants, animals and microscopic organisms

• life science

• earth and space science

• scientific theory

• physical science

includes the study of earth and its place in the universe

• life science

• earth and space science

• physical science

• scientific law

involves the study of the processes that direct the world around you.

• scientific law

• physical science

• life science

• earth and space science

describes what will happen or how it will happen without trying to explain why it happens

• Newton's law of universal gravitation

• Law of conservation of energy

• scientific law

• scientific theory

The force of gravity acts between all objects in the universe

• Newton's law of universal gravitation

• Newton's First Law of Motion

• Newton's Second Law of Motion

An object at rest will remain at rest, and an object moving at a constant velocity will continue moving at a constant velocity, unless it is acted upon by an unbalanced force

• Newton's law of universal gravitation

• Newton's First Law of Motion

• Newton's Second Law of Motion