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Engineering Design
29 vocab words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Science | Is a way of learning about the natural world. |
| Observing | using one or more of your senses to gather information. |
| Inferring | When interpreting things you observe |
| Predicting | making a forecast on what will happen in the future |
| Scientific inquiry | the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on evidence they gather |
| Hypothesis | a possible explanation for a set of observations or answer to a scientific question |
| Independent (Manipulated) Variable | the variable that is purposely changed to test a hypothesis |
| Dependent (Responding) variable | the factor that is expected to change in response to the manipulated variable |
| Controlled variable | an experiment that only one variable is controlled at a time |
| Data | facts,figures,and other evidence gathered through observations |
| Communicating | the sharing of ideas and experimental findings with others through writing or speaking |
| Model | picture,diagram,computer image,or other representations of an object of process |
| Scientific theory | a well tested explanation for a wide range of observations or results |
| Scientific law | a statement that describes what scientists expect to happen every time under a particular set of conditions |
| Qualitative | not using numbers it uses notes |
| Quantitative | using numbers in the data |
| Graph | a “picture“ of your data |
| Horizontal axis | the x axis that runs left to right on the bottom of the graph |
| Origin | the point where the x and y axis both meet or (0,0) |
| Coordinate | a pair of numbers to determine the position of a point on a graph |
| Data point | point showing the location of the intersection |
| Line of best fit | a smooth line that goes from the start to the finish on the graph |
| Linear graph | a graph in which the data points yield in a straight line |
| Slope | the steepness of the graph line |
| Nonlinear graph | a line in which the data points do not fall along a straight line |
| Reasoning | Justifying your claim by explaining the data and other scientific principles. |
| Accuracy | how close the measurement is to the true or actual value |
| Precision | how close a group or measurements are to each other |
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