| A | B |
|---|
| science | a body of knowledge |
| science literacy | a basic understanding of science and its processes. involves reasoning and thinking skills |
| pseudoscience | imitates science, may be culturally or commercially driven, little research is done |
| observation | gathering of information about a phenomenon |
| inference | an assumption based on pror experience |
| control group | the part of experiment not being tested, serves as the standard for comparison |
| dependent variable | factor being measured, its value changes due to the independent variable |
| indpendent variable | the one factor which can be changed, it is the factor being tested. it affects the experimental outcome |
| theory | explanation of a natural phenomenon, based on many obsevations |
| scientific law | describes relatinships under certain conditions in nature |
