| A | B |
|---|
| Observation | Using your 5 senses to record details |
| Inference | Using your observations combined with what you already know to explain something or make a prediction |
| Quantitative | Observation with a number |
| Qualitative | Observation with a description |
| Prediction | What you think will happen in the future |
| Hypothesis | An educated guess that answers a question or a prediction. |
| Data | Information that is collected |
| Scientific Method | an organized set of steps scientists use to solve problems and answer questions |
| The frog is green is an.. | example of an Observation |
| The test is going to be hard is an .. | example of prediction |
| The baby is crying so she must feel bad | example of an inference |
| QNT | Quantitative |
| Quantity | how much |
| QL | Qualitative |
| biology | the study of living things |
| herpetologist | studies reptiles and amphibians |
| ology | suffix for "the study of" |
| ologist | suffix "someone who studies" |
| zoologist | a person who studies animals |
| climate | the average weather for a place over a long period of time |
| Weather | what is happening outside at a specific time and place |
| Climatologist | studies weather conditions over a long period of time |
| Hydrologist | studies the movement and composition of water |
| Meteorologist | analyzes weather and weather conditions |
| 96.5% | amount of water on earth that is found in the oceans |
| 30% | amount of earth covered in land |
| 70% | amount of earth covered in water |
