Name:________________
Date:__________
1. The word "scire" means__________.
2. Today science is defined as a way of ________ and ________ information about _______.
3. Biology is the study of ______.
4. Zoology is the study of ______.
5. Botany is the study of ______.
6. Microbiology is the study of ______ ______ _____ _____, such as _____, ______, ______, and _______.
7. Anatomy is the study of _________, and physiology is the study of_________.
8. Medical science is the study of _______ and ______.
9. Psychology is the study of the _______ ______ and ______ ______.
10. Physics is the study of _______,______, and _______.
11. Chemistry is the study of _______ and ________.
12. Virology is the study of _________.
13. Bacteriology is the study of __________.
14. Organic chemistry is the study of the ________ and ________ which compose _______ ______.
15. The word "organic" means ________.
16. Inorganic chemistry is the study of the _______ and _______ which compose ________ _______.
17. The word "inorganic" means __________.
18. Physical science is the study of ______ and _______ ________.
19. Physical science is the study of the ________ parts of nature.
20. The scientific method is the method used by scientists to ________ ________.
21. The first step in the scientific method is __________.
22. A _________ is a tentative explanation or an educated guess as to why something occurred.
23. To be a good hypothesis, it should be ___________.
24. A _________ is a way to testing a hypothesis.
25. In a ________ _______, all factors which influence the outcome of the experiment are kept the same except for the one whose effect is being studied.
26. ________ are things in an experiment which can vary.
27. The ________ _______ is the variable which the experiment is designed to test.
28. ________ _______ are the factors which must be controlled in an experiment so that they will not effect the outcome.
29. The _______ ______ is the variable which the experiment is designed to measure.
30. In an experiment, a good way to think of the manipulated variable is to think of it as being the ______.
31. In an experiment, a good way to think of the dependent variable is to think of it as the ______.
32. In a scientific experiment, the ______ of an experiment are the things which are experimented upon.
33. The _________ group is the group which is given the experimental treatment.
34. The _________ group is also known as the comparison group.
35. The purpose of having a control group in an experiment is to
serve as a basis of __________.
36. In a ________ __________ the subjects do not know if they are in the experimental group or the control group.
37. All experiments which test drugs must control for the _______
________.
38. In a drug related experiment, the ________ group is given the placebo.
39. A ________ is a fake pill.
40. An _____ substance is a substance which is neutral or inactive. 41. The _________ ____ ______ occurs whenever an experimenter either consciously or unconsciously interjects their bias or expectations into the results of an experiment.
42. A ______ _____ __________ is one in which neither the subjects nor the experimenter knows which group is experimental and which is control.
43. A good experiment is __________.
44. A ________ is a well-tested hypothesis which experiments show to be true most of the time.
45. _________ are living things which lack cells.
46. A scientific ____ is a hypothesis which has been proven to be true all of the time.
47. ________ are mathematical procedures that let scientists know the probability that they obtained their results by pure chance alone.
48. A _________ __________ is one which a scientist could not
expect to have been obtained by pure chance more than 5% or 1%
of the time.