Ch1scientific method

Question 1

Explain observation

Answer 1

Involves measuring or observing some aspect of nature

Question 2

What is the importance of scientific method

Answer 2

Away of learning. That emphasizes observation and experimentation

Question 3

Explain scientific law

Answer 3

A statement that summarizes past observations and predicts future ones. Scientific laws are usually formulated from a series of related observations

Question 4

Explain an experiment

Answer 4

A procedure that attempts to measure observable predictions to test a theory or law.

Question 5

Hypothesis

Answer 5

A theory or law before it has become well established; a tentative explanation for an observation or a scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation.

Question 6

Data results may either_____ your hypothesis or ______

Answer 6

Support or reject

Question 7

Hypotheses, laws, and theories must be ____________________

Answer 7

Tested and validated by experiments

Question 8

Compare and contrast laws and theories

Answer 8

Laws summarize the result of large numbers of observation

Theories is an explanation of the observations and laws

They both made observation.

Question 9

Explain a theory

Answer 9

A proposed explanation for observations and laws. A theory presents a model of the way nature works and predicts behavior that extends well beyond the observations and laws from which it was formed.

Question 10

The scientific method is away to understand the _____

Answer 10

World

Question 11

Scientific method steps in order

Answer 11

First step- observation
Second step- research then rom a hypothesis
Third step- experimentation
Forth step- analyze data then form conclusions