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| a way of learning about the natural world |
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| using one or more of your senses to gather information |
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| Quantitative observations |
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| deal with a number or amount |
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| Qualtitative observations |
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| deal with descriptions that cannot be expressed with numbers |
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| explaining or interpreting things you observe |
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| making a forecast of what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence |
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| the process of grouping together items that are alike in some way |
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| involves creating representations of complex objects or processes |
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| the study of living things |
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| the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on the information they gather |
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| a possible explanation for a set of observations or answer to a scientific question |
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| factors that can change in an experiment |
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| an experiment in which only one variable is manipulated at a time |
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| the variable that is purposely changed to test a hypothesis |
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| the factor that may change in response to the manipulated variable |
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| is a statement that describes how to measure a variable or define a term |
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| the facts, figures and other evidence gathered from observations |
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| the sharing of deas and findings with others throough writing and speaking |
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| how people change the world around them to meet their needs and solve practical problems |
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| a person who is trained to use both technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems |
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| the hind section of an arthropods's body that contians the reproductive organ and part of its digestive track |
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| An immunity that occurs when a persons own immune system produces antibodies in respons to the presence of a pathogen |
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| movement of materials through a cell membrane using energy |
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| a behavior or physical cahracteristic that allows and organism to survive and reproduce in an environment |
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| a disease cause by a virus that attacks the immune system |
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| different forms of a gene |
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| a small molecule thats is linked chemically to other ammino acids to from proteins |
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| a virus that infect bacteria! |
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