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| Who has a huge collection of skills from which to choose to gain knowledge from? |
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| What are some of the skills that scientists have? |
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| thinking, observing, predicting, investigating, researching, modeling, measuring, analyzingm and inferring. |
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| What is another way science can advance? |
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| What often follows a general pattern? |
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| How do most investigations begin? |
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| by seeing something and then asking a question about what was observed |
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| How do scientists collect more information? |
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| they almost always make more observations |
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| How do most insvestigations begin? |
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| by making observations and asking questions |
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| a reasonable and educated possible answer based on what you know and what you observe |
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| to draw a conclusion based on what you observe |
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| What is a way to investigate questions? |
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| by doing a controlled expirement |
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| What is a controlled expiriment? |
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| involves changing one factor and observing its effect on another while keeping everything else the same |
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| What are factors that can be changed in an experiment? |
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| What is the variable that is changed in in an experiment? |
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| What is the dependent variable? |
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| changes as a result of a change in the independent variable |
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| What variable is the one that is usually observed in an experiment? |
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| What are the variables that are not changed in an experiment? |
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| What is the most important safety advice in a science lab? |
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| always think before you act |
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| What must scientists follow? |
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| Never reach into or under what? |
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| into holes or under rocks |
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| What can help you visualize something that is difficult to see or understand? |
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| Models can also be of what? |
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| things that can't be seen because they don't exist anymore or they haven't been created yet |
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| Most models fall into 2 basic types. What are they? |
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| physical, computer, and idea models |
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| What are some examples of physical models? |
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| table top solar system, a globe of earth, rplica of the inside of a cell, or a gumdrop tootpick model of a chemical compound |
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| What are built using computer software? |
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| Some models are ideas or concepts that describe what? |
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| how someone thinks abou something in the natural world |
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| Who is famous for his theory of relativity? |
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| What is one of the most famous models Einstein used for his theory is the mathematical equation? |
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| explains that mass, m, can be changed into energy, e |
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| How do sketch artists attempt to draw a picture? |
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| from the description given by someone |
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| What does a scientific investigation always contain? |
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| during a scientific investigation and can be recorded in the formof descriptions, tables, graphs, or drawings |
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