Envisci Ch3.1-3.3,3.5 Test
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charlottepecquex on February 22, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Science | a pursuit of knowledge about how the world works |
| scientific data | facts, by making observations and measurements |
| scientific hypothesis | predictions with scientific data |
| Model | method scientists use to test a hypothesis to develop an approximate representation of the system being studied |
| scientific theory | an idea, principle, or model that 1) usually explains many facts that previously appeared unrelated 2) is supported by a lot of evidence |
| Scientific/ Natural Law | a description of what we find happening in nature over and over in the same manner without known exceptions |
| Accuracy | How well a measurment agrees with the accepted or correct value for that quantity |
| Precision | how close each data point is to the other data points |
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