Introduction to Life Science
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- what does observing involve
- sight,hearing,touch,taste, smell
- what is inffering
- explain or interpret things you observe
- what is predicting
- making a forcast of what will happen in the future
- how is classifying useful
- it proccesses the grouping together of data
- what are models
- representation of objects
- what is life science
- the study of living things
- ------- is a way of learning about the natural world
- science
- what are the five sences scientist use to learn more about the world
- observing, predicting, making models, inferring, classifying
- what is observing
- useing one or more of your sences to gather information
- what is quanitive
- useing numbers
- can some information not be seen on a model
- yes
- life science is also known as
- biology
- what is scientific inquiry
- diverse ways in which scientist study the natural world and explations based on the evidence they gather
- what is a testable hypotheses
- reaserchers must be able to carry out an investigatiion and gather evidence that will either support or disprove the hypoeses
- what is a responding variable
- a factor that may changein responce to themanipulated variable
- what is an operational definition
- a statement that describes how to mesure a particular varible or define a term
- what is a manipulated variable
- the variable that is purposly changed to test a hypotheses
- what is a controlled experiment
- only one variable is manipulated at one time
- variable
- a factor that can be changed in an experiment
- what is data
- evidence gatherd by observations
- what is a conclusion
- a summary of what you have learned in an expirement
- pose
- questions
- form a
- hypotheses
- design an
- experiment
- collect and interpret
- data
- draw
- conclusions
- what is technology
- how people change the world around them to meet every day needs
- what is the goal of technology
- to improve the way people live
- a person trained in tech and science is a
- engineer
- what does society mean
- people who live together in a gruop or area with certain things in common
- when should you start preparing for a lab
- 1 day before
- if you are unclear about something
- ask your teacher
- possible hazards when working in the field are
- severe westher, trafic, wild animals, poisonous plants