What Is Science? Flashcards
What is the goal of science?
It is to investigate and understand the natural world, to explain events in the natural world, and to use those explanations to make useful predictions.
What is science?
It is a organized way of using evidence to learn about the natural world.
What is observation?
It is the process of gathering information about events or processes in a careful, orderly way.
What is data?
It is the information gathered from observations.
What is quantitative data?
It is data that is expressed as numbers,obtained by counting or measuring.
What is qualitative data?
It is data that is descriptive and involve characteristics that can’t usually be counted.
What is a inference?
It is a logical interpretation based on prior knowledge or experience.
What is a hypothesis?
It is a proposed scientific explanation for a set of observations.
