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vocab c1
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an orderly method of gaining, organizing, and applying new knowledge | Scientific method |
a close agreement by competent observers of a series of observations of the same phenomena | fact |
an educated guess; a reasonable explanation of an observation or experimental result that is not fully accepted as factual until tested over and over again by experiment | hypothesis |
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 know as a principle | 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 law. | principle |
a synthesis of a large body of information that encompasses well-tested and verified hypotheses about aspects of the natural world. | theory |