Science Midterm Review III
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- Proteus Boat
- a boat mimicking a penguin
- Observation
- is getting information about what is happening around us through our senses.
- Estimate
- a reasonable approximation.
- Physical Science
- non-living things, has to do with energy, forces, pressure, and matter
- Manipulative Variable
- independent, purposely changed to test hypothesis.
- Length
- Meter
- Scientific Method
- is a series of steps to conduct an experiment.
- Prediction
- a forecast about what is going to happen in the future
- Inference
- guessing what is happening at that moment
- Qualitative
- has nothing to do with numbers, are qualities about an object; describes
- SI
- International System of Units
- Quantative
- Numbers.
- Science
- - is a way of learning about the natural world through observations and logical reasoning
- Temperature
- Kelvin
- Responding Variable
- reacts to the manipulative variable.