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Vocabulary-Kelsey
Chapter 1 section 1
Question | Answer |
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Science | organized way of getting and analyzing evidence about the natrual world. |
Observations | the act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful,orderly way. |
Inference | a logical interpretation based on what scientists already know. |
Hypothesis | a scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it. |
Controlled Experiment | all other variables should be kept unchanged, or controlled. |
Independent Variable | the variable that is deliberately changed. |
Dependent Variable | the variable that that is observed and that changes in responce to the other variable(responding variable) |
Control Group | is exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group except for one independent variable. |
Data | when scientist make detailed records of experimental observations, gathering information. |