science

Question 1

What is the scientific method?

Answer 1

The scientific method is a process for experimentation that is used to explore observations and answer questions.

Question 2

What is physical science?

Answer 2

How scientists think. The way of learning about the natural world by gathering info.

Question 3

How is information collected?

Answer 3

By observing, inferring, and predicting.

Question 4

Observing

Answer 4

Using your senses to gather info. See, hearing, tough, taste, and smell.

Question 5

Qualitative -

Answer 5

Descriptive obseverations that do not use numbers

Question 6

Quantitative-

Answer 6

Measurements, numerical data

Question 7

Inferring

Answer 7

An example of your obsevation based on prior knowledge

Question 8

Perdicting

Answer 8

Forecasting what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence.

Question 9

Variables

Answer 9

Are fators that can change in an experiment.

Question 10

A variable that is expected to change as a result

Answer 10

Dependent variable

Question 11

Independent variable

Answer 11

Only one variable is purposely changed by the experimenter.

Question 12

Hypothesis

Answer 12

Is a possible explanation for something observed.

Question 13

what is a controlled experiment

Answer 13

where some aspect of the experiment is controlled like the subject, environment, specimen, variable, etc.