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What is science?
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to understand, explain and make predictions about the natural world
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what do scientists do?
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collect and organize information looking for evidence between events
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scientists propose what that can be tested by examining what and what
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they can propose explanations
by examining patterns and connections |
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what is observation?
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using one or more senses to gather data
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what is data?
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the information gathered from observations
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what are the two types of data
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qualitative
quantitative |
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what kind of data is descriptive
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qualitative
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what kind of data involves numbers
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quantitative
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what is hypothesis
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possible explanation for observations or an educated guess
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a hypothesis usually starts with what
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if
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