29 vocab words
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| Science | Is a way of learning about the natural world.
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| Observing | using one or more of your senses to gather information.
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| Inferring | When interpreting things you observe
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| Predicting | making a forecast on what will happen in the future
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| Scientific inquiry | the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on evidence they gather
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| Hypothesis | a possible explanation for a set of observations or answer to a scientific question
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| Independent (Manipulated) Variable | the variable that is purposely changed to test a hypothesis
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| Dependent (Responding) variable | the factor that is expected to change in response to the manipulated variable
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| Controlled variable | an experiment that only one variable is controlled at a time
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| Data | facts,figures,and other evidence gathered through observations
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| Communicating | the sharing of ideas and experimental findings with others through writing or speaking
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| Model | picture,diagram,computer image,or other representations of an object of process
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| Scientific theory | a well tested explanation for a wide range of observations or results
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| Scientific law | a statement that describes what scientists expect to happen every time under a particular set of conditions
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| Qualitative | not using numbers it uses notes
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| Quantitative | using numbers in the data
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| Graph | a “picture“ of your data
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| Horizontal axis | the x axis that runs left to right on the bottom of the graph
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| Origin | the point where the x and y axis both meet or (0,0)
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| Coordinate | a pair of numbers to determine the position of a point on a graph
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| Data point | point showing the location of the intersection
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| Line of best fit | a smooth line that goes from the start to the finish on the graph
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| Linear graph | a graph in which the data points yield in a straight line
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| Slope | the steepness of the graph line
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| Nonlinear graph | a line in which the data points do not fall along a straight line
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| Reasoning | Justifying your claim by explaining the data and other scientific principles.
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| Accuracy | how close the measurement is to the true or actual value
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| Precision | how close a group or measurements are to each other
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