| A | B |
|---|
| Science | the process of explaining the natural world. |
| Observing | using your senses to gather information about the world. |
| Qualitative | observations describe using words. |
| Quantitative | observations measure using numbers. |
| Inferring | is making sense of your observation. |
| Predicting | making an inference about a future event |
| Models | help people understand things that they cannot observe directly. |
| Communicating | the process of sharing ideas and information with other |
| Metric System | system of measurement based on the number 10. |
| meter | unit used to measure length, or the distance between two points. |
| liter | unit used to measure the volume of a liquid or the amount |
| gram | used to measure the mount of matter in an object. |
| Degrees Celsius | measure of temperature |
| Jane Goodall | used her skills of observation, inference, prediction, and communication in her studies of chimpanzee society. |
| Kilo | prefix for times 1000 |
| milli | prefix for times 0.001 |
| centi | prefix for times 0.01 |
| deci | prefix for times 0.1 |
| hecto | prefix for times 100 |
| micro | prefix for times 0.000 001 |
| Mega | prefix for times 1,000,000 |
| Giga | prefix for times 1,000,000,000 |
| Tera | prefix for times 1,000,000,000,000 |
