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Process Skills
Term | Definition |
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Data | Facts, statistics, or information |
Qualitative | Data concerned with meaning, rather than measurement |
Quantitative | Data concerned with measurement |
SI Units (International System of Units) | The worldwide standard of measurement |
Mean | The average value of a set of numbers |
Median | The middle value in a distribution |
Mode | The number or range of numbers in a set that occurs most frequently |
Range | In a set of numbers, the difference between the smallest number and the largest number |
Dependent Variable | The factor that is being measured in an experiment, graphed on the y-axis |
Independent Variable | The variable that can be changed during an experiment, graphed on the x-axis |
Hypothesis | Proposed or tentative explanation of certain scientific facts or observations |
Observation | To use one or more of the senses to gather information |