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Science
Question | Answer |
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Science | A way of learning about the natural world and the knowlged gained though that process |
Scientific inquiry | The diverse ways in which scientists expore problems and seek to answer questions about the natural world |
Observation | using all five senses to gather infromation |
inference | An interpretation based on obsevation and pirior knowedge |
Hypothesis | A possible explation for a set of observations or an ansewer to a scentific Question |
Controlled exeriment | An experiment in which all factors expect one are kept consent |
Variable | Any factor that can be changed in an experiment |
Manipulated variable | The one factor that a scientist changes during an experiment also called the independent variable in a experiment |
Responding variable | The factor that changes as a result of changes made by the manipulated variable in an experiment also called the dependent variable |
Data | The facts, figures, and other evidence gained though observations |
scientific theory | A well - tested concept that explain a wide range of obsrstions |