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Chapter 1 Vocabulary
cdeutsch/ursuline
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scientific method | a orderly method for gaining, organizing, and applying new knowledge |
fact | a close agreement by competent observers of a series of observations of the same phenomena |
hypothesis | and educated guess, a reasonable explanation of and observation or expirimental result that is not fully recognized as factual until tested over and over again by expirimentation |
law | a general hypothesis or statement about the relationship of natural quantities that has been tested over and over again and has not been contradicted. also known as a principal. |
theory | a synthesis of a large body of information that encompases well tested and varified hypothesis about the aspect of the natural world. |