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Campos vocab words
Question | Answer |
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SCIENCE | A way of learning about the natural world and the knowledge gained through that process |
SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY | The diverse ways in which scientists explore |
SCIENTIFIC THEORY | A well tested concept that explains a wide range of observations |
OBSERVATIONS | Using all five senses to gather information |
INFERENCE | an interpretation based on data and prior knowledge |
HYPOTHESIS | a possible guess for a set of observations or an explanation to a scientific theory |
CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT | an experiment in which all conditions except one are kept the same |
VARIABLE | anything that can change in an experiment |
MANIPULATED VARIABLE | the experimental factor that a scientist manipulates during an experiment; also called the independent variable |
RESPONDING VARIABLE | the variable that may change as a result of changes made by the independent variable in an experiment also called the dependent variable |
DATA | the facts figures ad other statistics gained through observations |