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