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7th grade science
Term | Definition |
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Pseudoscience | fake science such as Astrology (reading the stars) |
Scientific Reasoning | the practice of thinking and asking questions to explain science (thinking using symbols) |
Inference | Using what you see (evidence) and what you think to reach a conclusion (to make a good guess) |
Observation | watching something or someone carefully to get information |
Methods | Specific way you do something (a procedure or technique) |
Experiment | a procedure in science to discover, demonstrate, or test hypothesis |
Control group | the group in the experiment that doesn't get the experiment done to it |
Variables | any factor that can be controlled or changed |
independent variable | something that you change in an experiment |
dependent variable | the variable that you observe in an experiment |
investigation | to examine something |