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What Is Science?
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This section describes the skills scientists use to learn about the world. The section
also explains what life science is.
Before you read, preview the red headings in your text. For each heading, write a
what, how, or why question in the left-hand column below. As you read, write
answers to your questions in the right-hand column.
Scientific Skills
Question
What does observing involve?
Answer
Observing involves . . .
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What Is Science? (continued)
Introduction
1.
Is the following sentence true or false? Science is a way of learning about
the natural world. ____________________
2.
What are five skills scientists use to learn more about the world?
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Observing
3.
What is observing?
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4.
The senses a scientist uses in observing include sight, hearing, touch,
taste, and ______________.
5.
In the spaces below, explain the differences between quantitative and
qualitative observations.
Observations
Quantitative Observations
Qualitative Observations
Inferring
6.
What is inferring?
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Predicting
8. Making a forecast of what will happen in the future based on past
experience or evidence is called __________________.
9. How are inferring and predicting related?
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Classifying
10. What is classifying?
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11. Is the following sentence true or false? A drawback of classifying things
is that objects and information stay disorganized. ____________________________
Making Models
12. What does making models involve?
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13. Circle the letter of each item that could be a model.
a. map
b. movie set
c. computer-generated illustration
d. notebook notes
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7. Circle the letter of each item that is true about inferences.
a. Inferences are based on reasoning from what you already know.
b. Making an inference involves wild guessing.
c. An inference is an interpretation of observations.
d. People make inferences all the time.
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What Is Science? (continued)
14. Is the following sentence true or false? Models help people study things that cannot
be observed directly. ___________________________
15. Is the following sentence true or false? Some information about an object or process
may be missing from a model. ___________________________
Working in Life Science
16. Life science is also known as _______________.
Match the life-science career with its description.
Career
____ 17. marine biologist
____ 18. forestry technician
Description
a. determines which trees should be cut
b. studies plants and may work with farmers
c. studies living things found in oceans
____ 19. botanist
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