| 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 | 
| 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. | 
| Kilo | prefix for times 1000 | 
| milli | prefix for times 0.001 | 
| centi | prefix for times 0.01 |