Sciences

Name ____________________________ Date ____________________ Class ____________ Introduction to Life Science
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Guided Reading and Study

What Is Science?
This section describes the skillsscientists use to learn about the world. The section also explains what life science is.
Introduction to Life Science

Use Target Reading Skills
Before you read, preview the red headings in your text.For each heading, write a what, how, or why question in the left-hand column below. As you read, write answers to your questions in the right-hand column.
Scientific Skills
Question What doesobserving involve? Answer Observing involves . . .

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Guided Reading and Study

What Is Science? (continued)
Introduction
1. Is the following sentence true or false? Science is a way of learningabout the natural world. ____________________ 2. What are five skills scientists use to learn more about the world? ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ________________________________________

Observing
3. What is observing? ____________________________________________________________

____________ ________________________________________________________________________ 4. The senses a scientist uses in observing include sight, hearing, touch, taste, and ______________. 5. In the spaces below, explain the differences between quantitative and qualitativeobservations.

Observations Quantitative Observations Qualitative Observations

Inferring
6. What is inferring? ____________________________________________________________

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