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8 Science Test 1
8 Science vocab for Test 1
Question | Answer |
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Qualitative Observation | Data using characteristics or qualities |
Quantitative Observation | Data using quantities or numbers. |
Inference | An educated guess from the evidence of an experiment. |
Hypothesis | An educated guess |
Independent Variable | is the part of the experiment that is being tested or the part that is being changed by the scientist. |
Dependent Variable | The part of the experiment that is affected by the independent variable. It is what is being measured. |
Control Group | The part of an experiment that is not being tested and is used for comparison. The "normal" situation. |
Constant | is the one or many things, in an experiment that DOES NOT change. |
Results | The ending of an experiment. The outcome. |
Conclusion | What the scientist writes at the end of an experiment which summarizes the experiment and the results. |
Problem | The 1st step of the Scientific Method. |
Procedure | The steps you use during an experiment. |