1. Name:_______________ Date:_________
Living Environment Rabbi Goldberg
Introduction to Living Environment
I. What are we going to learn?
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b. _______________________________
c. _______________________________
d. _______________________________
e. _______________________________
f. _______________________________
g. _______________________________
II. What is Living Environment?
a. _____________________________________________________
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III. The Methods of Science?
a. You arrive home late at night, walk up to your house door, unlock
the door, and reach in to the light switch just inside the front door.
The light does not come on! Now what?
b. As a normal human being, you will go through a mental and
physical process of hypothesis testing. The steps happen very
rapidly in your mind and, prior to this, you may not have had names
for the various steps. Nevertheless, I hope you will recognize what
your brain is doing as you stand there in the darkness. You are
already a scientist, as you will see, you just didn't know it!
c. The technique used by scientists to solve problems is known as the
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2. d. The scientific method
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IV. Steps to the Scientific Method
a. State the Problem
i. The problem is a ________________________________
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b. Propose a Hypothesis
i. A hypothesis is
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c. Test the Hypothesis
i. The scientist must design
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ii. The experiment, called a _________________________,
should test only one __________________.
iii. The factor to be tested is called
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iv. Another experiment that is the same in every way but does
not contain the variable is called the
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d. Make Observations
i. From the experiment, the scientist makes observations
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3. ii. These observations include careful measurements, as well
as observations made with the senses and with instruments.
iii. From these observations, a __________________________
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e. State a Conclusion
i. The answer to the problem is called the conclusion.
ii. To be valid or true, _______________________________
_____________________this is called
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iii. These facts result from observation and experimentation.
f. Repeat the Experiment
i. The experiment is repeated many times to check the
conclusions.
ii. When, after repeated testing, many scientists reach the
same conclusion, the conclusion may be called a scientific
law.