| A | B |
|---|
| sight, smell, hearing, taste, touch | 5 senses used for observation |
| observing, inferring, predicting, classifying, models | 5 skills scientists use to learn more about the world |
| quantative uses numbers and qualitative uses descriptions | difference between quantitative versus qualitative observations |
| inferring or inference | explaining or interpreting things you observe |
| predictions or predicting | making a forecast of what will happen in the future based on past experience |
| Inferences explain what has happened and predicts are forecasts of what will happen | way that inferering and predicting are related |
| classification or classifying | grouping together items that are alike in some way |
| models | representations of complex objects or processes |
| it helps people study things that can't be observed directly | why people use models |
| science | a way of learning about the natural world |
| skepticism | an attitude of doubt |
| observation | gathering information by using one or more of your senses |
| quantitative | observations that deal with a number or amount |
| qualitative | observations tht deal with descriptions that can't be expressed in numbers |
| life | branch of sciene that includes the study of living things and how they interact with themselves and their environment |
| physical science | branch of science that includes the study of nonliving matter including the nature and properties of energy |
| earth and space science | branch of science that includes the study of the Earth, its components, and its place in the Universe |
