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| What is the goal of science? |
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| To investigate and understand the natural world, to explain events in the natural world, and to use those explanations to make useful predictions. |
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| organized way of using evidence to learn about the natural world; also, the body of knowledge that scientists have built up after years of using this process. |
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| use of one or more of the senses- sight, hearing, touch, smell, and sometimes taste- to gather information. |
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| evidence; information gathered from observations. |
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| data expresses as numbers, obtained by counting or measuring. |
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| data that are descriptive and involves characteristics that can't be counted. |
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| logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience. |
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| possible explanation for a set of observations or possible answer to a scientific question. |
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| What does it mean for a scientist to be a skeptic? |
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| Questioning both existing ideas and new hypotheses. |
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| What are 2 ways a scientific hypothesis can be tested? |
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| By performing controlled experiments or by gathering more data. |
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