For Chapter 1, students should learn these vocabulary words.

Section 1
1. science
2. observing
3. qualitative observations
4. quantitative observations
5. inferring
6. predicting
7. chemistry
8. physics

Section 2
1. scientific inquiry
2. hypothesis
3. variable
4. manipulated variable
5. responding variable
6. controlled experiment
7. data
8. communicating
9. scientific law
10. scientific theory

Section 3
1. estimate
2. accuracy
3. precision
4. mean
5. median
6. mode
7. significant figures