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| a way of learning about the natural world |
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| using one of more of your senses to gather information |
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| deals with numbers or amounts |
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| deals with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers |
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| based on reasoning from what you already know |
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| making a statement or claim about what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence |
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| grouping together items that are alike in some way |
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| comparing observations and data to reach conclusions |
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| creating representations of complex objects or processes |
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| inventive ways to solve problems |
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| comes from a person's likes and dislikes |
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| comes from the culture in which a person grows up |
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| mistake in the design of an experiment that makes a particular result more likely |
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| make decisions and draw conclusions based on available evidence |
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| personal feelings have entered into a decision or conclusion |
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| refers to the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on the evidence they gather. |
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| a possible answer to a scientific question |
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| factors that can change in an experiment |
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| the variable that is purposely changed to test a hypothesis |
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| the variable that may change in response to the manipulated variable |
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| an experiment in which only one variable is manipulated at a time |
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| facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through qualitative and quantitative observations |
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| well tested explanation for a wide range of observations and experimental results |
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| a statement that describes what scientists expect to happen every time under a particular set of conditions |
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