Unit 1 · Scientific StudyScientific Learning
Words of this lesson
- Evaporation: the process of water turning into vapour on heating.
- Condensation: the process of vapour cooling back into water.
- Observation: watching an event or object carefully and noticing what is happening.
- Curiosity: the strong wish to know something, out of which the questions of an investigation are born.
- Hypothesis: a probable answer to the study's question, one that an experiment can check.
- Data: the numbers and facts collected from an experiment or an observation.
- Analysis: working through collected data to draw out what it means.
- Conclusion: the final judgement drawn after analysis.
- Report: the written account of what was done in a study and what was found.
- Law: a statement propounded from the conclusions of scientific study that holds in nature every time.
- Theory: organised knowledge, confirmed by evidence, that explains why a natural event happens.