CA 8th Grade Standard 9: Investigation and Experimentation Vocabulary.
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| SCIENCE | The knowledge gained by observing natural events to discover facts and formulate theories and laws.
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| SCIENTIFIC METHOD | Steps scientists use to solve problems.
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| OBSERVATION | Any use of the senses to gather information.
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| HYPOTHESIS | A possible answer or explanation to a question.
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| CONTROLLED PARAMETERS | The factors that are kept the same in a controlled experiment
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| VARIABLE PARAMETERS | The one factor that changes between the groups in a controlled experiment.
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| DATA | Any piece of information gotten through an experiment.
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| MASS | The amount of matter in an object.
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| MATTER | The stuff everything is made of.
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| VOLUME | The amount of space something occupies.
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| DENSITY | Mass per unit volume.
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| TEMPERATURE | Measure of how hot or cold something is.
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| MODEL | A representation of an object or system.
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| THEORY | An explanation for many hypothesis and observations that have been supported by testing.
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| LAW | A summary of many experimental results and observations, tells how something works.
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| INDEPENDENT VARIABLE | In an experiment the factor that is deliberately changed.
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| DEPENDENT VARIABLE | In an experiment the factor that changes as a result of one or more factors being changed.
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| X and Y AXIS | In a graph the x axis is the horizontal line and the y axis is the vertical line.
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| LINEAR GRAPH | On a graph when the relationship between the independent and dependent variable is a straight line.
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| NONLINEAR GRAPH | On a graph then the relationship between variables is not a straight line.
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| MEAN | Average.
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| MEDIAN | The value of the data point in the middle when data are placed in order from smallest to largest.
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| MODE | The most frequently occuring number in the data.
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| SLOPE | The measure of the slant of a line; the ration of rise over run.
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| HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL | Horizontal a line going left to right and vertical is a line going up and down.
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