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Ch.1 vocab 1-6
Vocabulary
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An orderly method for 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 known 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 know as law | principle |
a synthesis of a large body of information that encompasses well-tested and verified hypotheses about aspects of the natural world | theory |