Chpt 1

a way of learning more about the natural world.

an attempt to explain a pattern observed repeatdly in the natural world

a rule that describes a pattern in nature

a collection of structures, cycles, and processes

the study of living systems and the ways in which they interact

the study of earth systems and the systems in space

the study of mater and energy

the practical use of sience, or applied scince

a reasonable and educated possible answer based on what you know and what you observe

to draw a conclusion based on what you obsereve

changing one factor and observing its effect on another while keeping ll other factors constant

factors that can be changed in an eperiment

the variable that is changed in an experiment

Changes as a result of a change in the independent variable

the variables that are not changed in experiment

any representation of an object or an event used as a tool for understanding th enatural world