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| science | The Study of the natural world; Must be falsifiable |
| pure science | Searching for knowledge for knowledge's sake |
| observation | Based on the five senses |
| skepticism | Question everything; critical thinking |
| model | a visual, verbal, and/or mathematical explanation of experiemental data; can be used for experiementation and making predictions |
| hypothesis | tenative explanation that must make predictions and be testable |
| structure | How is it put together? |
| composition | What is it made of? |
| applied science | Using science to search for something that will ahve a practical use |
| inference | A conclusion or interpretation of information from the senses |
| falsifability | Experiementation to show that a hypothesis is false. |
| scientific law | A theory that has withstood many experiments and has not been falsified. |
| scientific revolution | When scientific evidence changed theories and changes our views of the world. |
| technology | The application of scientific knowledge to solve everyday human problems. |
| theory | A hypothesis that has withstood many experiments and has not been falsified. |
| scientific method | The process used to solve scientific problems. |
| property | How it something described? |
| Earth Science | the study of the structure, properties, composition, development, environment, and processes of the earth and the universe that surrounds it |
| Astronomy | The study of the Universe. |
| Meteorology | The study of the atmosphere and weather systems. |
| Hydrology | The study of water. |
| independent variable | the variable you plan to change in an experiment |
| dependent variable | the variable you measure in an experiment, it changes in response to a change in the independent variable |
| geosphere | the earth system that describes the solid earth |
| hydrosphere | the earth system that describes water in, on, and around the earth |
| atmosphere | the earth system that describes the gases surrounding the earth |
| biosphere | the earth system that describes the living organisms in the environment |
| environment | everything surrounding us |
| geology | the study of the origin, history and structure of the solid earth and the processes that shape it |
| qualitative data / observations | numerical observations including: temperature, pressure, volume, length, etc.. |
| quantitative data / observations | observations that describe the physical characteristics of an object/substance |
| experiment | a set of controlled observations that test a hypothesis and only test one variable at a time |
| conclusion | a judgement based on information obtained through research and/or experiementation; same thing as an inference |
