Scientific Termonology Flashcards
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Empirical
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Scientific knowledge is based on observation and experiment
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Hypothesis
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- formed from observations
- a tentative interpretation or explanation of the observations.
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Falsifiable
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A prediction which can be confirmed or refuted by further observation
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Experiment
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Highly controlled procedures designed to generate observations
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Scientific law
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- A brief statement that summarizes past observations and predict future ones
- Describes how nature behaves by making generalizations about what nature does
- AKA principles
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Scientific theory
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- A model for the way nature is and tries to explain not only what nature does, but why
- can never be conclusively proved because a future observation can reveal a flaw
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Atomic Theory
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- John Dalton
- proposes matter is composed of atoms, which cannot be created nor destroyed; only rearranged. Because of this, the total amount of mass remains the same
