Bob Jones Life Science Intro & Chap 1
Terms
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- a true statement about the existence of something or about a past event
- historical facts
- visible remains of something
- physical evidence
- evidence which men have written or recorded in some other way
- recorded evidence
- man's observation of the physical world
- science
- what we can tell about our surrounding using our senses
- observations
- either excludes everything or includes everything; often uses words like all or none
- universal statement
- a decision regarding the rightness, beauty, worth, or some other unmeasurable characteristic of an object of action
- value judgements
- the Word of God
- Bible
- a question that may be answered by use of the scientific method
- problem
- an educated guess
- hypothesis
- an organized way of arriving at a workable solution to the problem
- scientific method
- imformation recorded from a survey or experiment
- data
- a situation designed and controlled by a person
- experiments
- a condition tested in an experiment
- experimental variable
- groups that experience the variable
- experimental groups
- doesn't have the variable
- control group
- a method of obtaining data
- survey
- the arranging
- classifying
- finding out whether or not the data supports the hypothesis
- analyizing
- the answer that the person solving the problem is sure that it's correct
- verified
- a strong opion or belief
- bias
- to say somthing will happen in the future
- predict