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38 Cards in this Set

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Step 1

question or observation

Step 2

Hypothesis

Hypothesis

a prediction statement in a complete sentence

Step 3

Test

Test

create atmosphere to see if your prediction is correct

Step 4

data, observation, measurement

Step 5

analyze the data

Step 6

Conclusion

Conclusion

accept or reject your prediction

Step 7

repeat

Step 8

publish

Publish

the best way to show your ideas

Step 9

theory

analyze

to break down

independent variable

one thing that will independently affect all other things

dependent variable

depends on if the independent variable makes its change

prediction statement

sets up an expeirment

qualitative data

observation of quality

quantitative data

observation of quantity

recording method

how you're going to keep track of the data

experimental group

group of test subjects with the independent variable

control group

group of test subjects without the independent variable

Recording data

chart or graph

synthesis

putting things together

Conclusion

type of synthesis that restates the hypothesis and rejects or accepts said hypothesis while using data

science

organized way of using evidence to learn about the natural world

observation

process of gathering information about events or a process in an orderly way

data

information gathered from observation

operational definition

description of how certain variables are to be measured and how the term is to be defined

spontaneous generation

idea that life can arise of non-living matter

Francesco Redi

observed that maggots appear several days after flies appeared; proved spontaneous generation wasn't true

biogenesis

generating from life

biosphere

living planet

flow of energy and cycling of matter

two processes that connect organisms with their environment

cells

the smallest units that can be considered alive

unicellular organisms

living things that consist of only one cell

multicellular organisms

living things that consist of more than one cell

unity of life

all living things are fundamentally alike at the molecular level