1. Match the terms below with the definitions given a - 1. Scientific method, Law, Experiment, Theory, Observation, Hypothesis Hypothesis a. Tentative answer to the question Scientific method. b. A well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment Method of investigation in which a problem is first identified and observations, experiments, or other relevant data are then used to construct or test hypothesis that purport to solve it. d. Merely distillations of the results of repeated observation e. Receiving knowledge of the outside world through our senses f. A methodical procedure carried out with the goal of verifying, or establishing the validity of a hypothesis. 2. Match the parameters of a scientific method in column with the descriptions given in column B. A 1. Observation a. put one pot of flowers in the shade, and one in the sun, making sure to keep everything else (amount of water, type of soil the same. 2 Data b My flowers aren't growing 3. Hypothesis C. My flowers in the sun grew better than my flowers in the shade. Experiment d. I think my flowers will grow better if they're in the sun, than in the shade. Conclusion Flowers grow better in the sun Theory f water them every day, they have good soil, and they're in the shade. 3. True or false? e. 5. 6. a. If your hypothesis is rejected, then your experiment was poorly designed b. The first step of the scientific method involves performing an experiment c. You can accept or reject a hypothesis, but never prove it to be true. d. Data are the facts you collect from your experiment, while Results are your interpretation of what the data means. c. A law describes observationstheory explains observations 1. Chemicals make up everything around you, including your own body Chemists study the properties of substances and the particles that compose those substances. h. Chemistry is the science that seeks to understand what matter does by studying living organisms. The scientific method emphasis reason as the way to understand the world. h. A hypothesis can never be proven as wrong A theory is always true and can never be proven as wrong