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Nature of Science:ES
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are you using for observations? | the five senses |
| What is an inference? | a possible explanation or guess about an observation |
| What is a hypothesis? | a testable statment |
| What are Variables? | changeable factors |
| What is the independent variable? | the factor that is purposely changed |
| What is the dependent variable? | the factor that cahnges because of the independent variable |
| What are constants? | factors that are kept the same for all groups in an experiment |
| What are theories? | explainations for observed patterns in nature |
| What are laws? | facts of nature of observational data that describe patterns and relationships |
| What is science based on? | evidence which can be observational and experimental |