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| 432987810 | Science | A process for producing knowledge methodically and logically | |
| 432987811 | Reproducibility | Making an observation or obtaining a particular set result more than once | |
| 432987812 | Replication | Repeating studies or tests to verify reliability | |
| 432987813 | Significant Number | Meaningful numbers whose accuracy can be verified | |
| 432987814 | Deductive Reasoning | Deriving testable predictions about specific cases from general principles | |
| 432987815 | Inductive Reasoning | Inferring general principles from specific examples | |
| 432987816 | Hypothesis | A provisional explanation that can be tested scientifically | |
| 432987817 | Scientific Theory | An explanation supported by many tests and accepted by a general consensus of scientists | |
| 432987818 | Natural Experiment | A study of events that have already happened | |
| 432987819 | Manipulative Experiment | One in which some conditions are deliberately altered while others are held constant to study cause-and-effect relationships | |
| 432987820 | Controlled Study | Those in which comparisons are made between experimental and control populations that are identical except for the variable being studied | |
| 432987821 | Blind Experiment | Those in which those carrying out the experiment don't know until after data has been gathered and analyzed which was the experimental treatment and which was the control | |
| 432987822 | Double- Blind Experiment | One in which neither the experimenters or the the subjects know until after the data has been gathered and analyzed which was the experimental treatment and which was the control | |
| 432987823 | Dependent Variable | A variable that is affected by the condition being altered in a manipulative experiment | |
| 432987824 | Independent Variable | A factor not affected by the condition being altered in a manipulative experiment | |
| 432987825 | Model | Simple representations of a more complex situation | |
| 432987826 | Systems | Networks of interactions among many independent factors | |
| 432987827 | Throughput | A flow of energy and matter into, through, and out of a system | |
| 432987828 | Positive Feedback Loop | A situation in which a factor or condition causes changes that further enhance that condition or factor | |
| 432987829 | Negative Feedback Loop | A situation in which a factor or condition causes a change that reduce that factor or condition | |
| 432987830 | Homeostasis | Maintaing a dynamic, steady state in a living system through opposing, compensating adjustments | |
| 432987831 | Disturbances | Periodic, destructive events such as fires or floods: changes in an ecosystem that affects the organisms living there | |
| 432987832 | Resilience | The ability of a community or ecosystem to recover from a disturbance | |
| 432987833 | State Shift | A permanent or long-lasting change | |
| 432987834 | Emergent Properties | Characteristics of whole, functioning systems that are quantitively or qualitatively greater than the sum of the systems' parts | |
| 432987835 | Scientific Consensus | A general agreement among informed scholars | |
| 432987836 | Paradigm Shifts | A model that provides a framework for interpreting observations |
