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Scientific Method

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science   a way of learning about the natural world and the knolage gained through that problem  
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scientific inquiry   the diverse ways in which scientists explore problems and seek to anser qustions about the natural world  
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observation   using all five senses to gather information  
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inference   an interseption based on opservation and prior knowledge  
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hypothesis   a possable explonation for a set of opservations or an anser to a scientific qustion  
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controled experiment   an experiment in which all factors except one ar kept constant  
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variable   any factor that can change in an experiment  
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manipulated variable   the one factor that a scientist changes during an experiment;also called the indipendet variable  
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responding variable   the factor that changes as a result of chanes made by the manipulated in the experiment; also called the dependent variable  
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data   the facts, figures, and other things gained through opservations  
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scientific theory   a well tested theary that supplys a wide range of oppservations  
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