Vocabulary
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| Hypothesis | prediction or statement that can be tested & may be formed by prior knowledge, any previous observations, & new information
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| Experimental Research Design | used to answer scientific questions by testing a hypothesis through the use os a series of carefully controlled steps
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| Descriptive research | answers scientific questions through observation
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| Independent variable | variable that can be changed during an experiment
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| Dependent variable | factor that is being measured during an experiment
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| Constant | variable that stays the same during an experiment
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| Control | sample that is treated like other experimental groups except that the independent variable is not applied to it
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| Evaporation | process that takes place when a liquid changes to a gas
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| Condensation | process that takes place when a gas changes to a liquid
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| Water Cycle | model describing how water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back to the surface again through evaporation, condensation, & precipitation
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| Nitrogen Cycle | model describing how nitrogen moves from the atmosphere to the soil, to living organisms, & then back to the atmosphere
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| Carbon Cycle | model describing how carbon molecules move between the living and nonliving world
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| Element | substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances
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| Electron | negatively-charged particle that exists in an electron cloud formation around an atom's nucleus
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| Proton | positively-charged particle in the nucleus of an atom
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