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Highly Controlled Procedures designed to generate observations that can confirm or refute a hypothesis. |
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What is a scientific law?
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A brief statement that summarizes past observations and predicts future ones. |
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| What is the law of conservation of mass? |
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A brief statement that summarizes past observations and predicts future ones. |
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A model for the way nature is and tries to explain not merely what nature does but why. |
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| What is the atomic theory? |
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o Matter is composed of small, indestructible particles called atoms. These particles merely rearrange in chemical changes so the total amount of mass remains the same. |
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| What is the scientific approach? |
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An approach to acquiring knowledge about the natural world that begins with observations and leads to the formation of testable hypotheses |
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| What is the definition of empirical? |
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| Based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic. |
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| Scientific knowledge is ____ |
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empirical, based on observations and experiments |
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| What is a quantitative experiment? |
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Measuring or Quantifying Something about the process |
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| What is a qualitative experiment? |
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Noting or describing how a process happens |
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When Atoine Lavoiser studied combustion, what did he realize?
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he noted that there was no change in the total mass of material within the container during combustion
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| What does it mean if a good hypothesis is falsifiable? |
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it makes predictions that can be confirmed or refuted by further observations
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| What will the results of an experiment do? |
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Results of an experiment may support hypothesis or prove it wrong |
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| What do scientific laws do? |
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Scientific laws describe how nature behaves – they are generalizations about what nature does |
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| What do good models give insight to? |
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A good model gives insight into how nature works and therefore explains our laws and observations |
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| What does the scietific method use to test theories? |
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The scientific approach uses observations (usually experiments) to test theories |
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Theories can never be conclusively proven because some new observation or experiment could reveal a flaw |
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