Name:______________________________________ Date:_________________ Period:___________
1.1 Science and the Natural World
1. Science is a way of learning about the natural world
a. Skills
i. Observing: using one or more of your senses to gather information
1. Quantitative: deals with numbers or amounts
a. Ex:
2. Qualitative: deals with descriptions that cannot be expressed in
numbers
a. Ex:
ii. Inferring: when you explain or interpret things you observe
1. Based on reasoning from what you already know
2. Attempts to explain what has happened
iii. Predicting: making a statement about what will happen in the future based
on past experience or evidence
iv. Classifying: grouping together of items that are alike in some way
v. Evaluating: comparing observations and data to reach a conclusion about
them
vi. Making Models: creating representations of complex objects or processes
Name:______________________________________ Date:_________________ Period:___________
1.1 Science and the Natural World
1. Science is a way of learning about the natural world
b. Skills
i. Observing: _____________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
1. Quantitative: ____________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
a. Ex:
2. Qualitative: _____________________________________________
_______________________________________________________
a. Ex:
ii. Inferring: when you ___________________ or ________________ things
you observe
1. Based on ________________________ from what you already know
2. Attempts to explain what _________________________________
iii. Predicting: making a statement about what __________________________
__________________ based on ____________________________________
or evidence
iv. Classifying: ____________________________________________________
of items that are alike in some way
v. Evaluating: _______________________________________ and data to
________________________________________________ about them
vi. Making Models: creating _________________________________________
of complex objects or processes