Chapter 1 What is Science Review

What is a valid reason for a scientific theory to be rejected

What's it called when you conduct an experiment and draw conclusions that are based on your beliefs rather than facts?

Before you conduct an experiment, you must...

Observations that cannot be expressed in numbers are called....

Explaining or interpreting the things you observe based on reasoning from what you already know is called ________.

A student is collecting data on rabbits and she counted 25, 17, 19, 30, and 12. What type of observation is this?

Making ______ involves creating representations to help people understand things that can't be observed directly.

In science a fact is....

A mistake in the design of an experiment that makes a certain result more likely is called experimental _____.

Scientific knowledge changes with....

Inductive reasoning leads you to conclude from this data that Birds eat 62% berries, 16% insects, 16% plants, 6% misc.

Which of these is an example of ethics in science?

__________ is the process of grouping together items that have similar characteristics

Squirrels ate more walnuts than pecans. We conclude squirrels like walnuts better. This is __________ reasoning.