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Vocab words aug/26
Science vocab
Question | Answer |
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What is Communication | the process of sharing ideas whit others through writing and speaking |
What is Responding Variable | The factor that changes as a result ofchanges to the manipulated or independent varible in an experiment that is also called dependent variableindependent variabe in an |
What is Manipulated Variable | the one factor that a scientist changes during an experiment; also called independent variable |
What is Data | Facts,figures, and other evidence gatherd through observation |
What is Variable | a factor in an experiment thhat can change |
What is Life Science | The study of living things |
What is Hypothesis | a possible explanation for a set of observations or anser to a scientific question; must be testible |
What is Scientific Inquiry e | the diverse ways in which scientists study the naturl world and propose explanations based on evidence they gather |
what is Predicting | the process of fordcasting what will happen based on past experiments or evidenge |
What is Infering | the Process of making an inference , an interpretation based on observations based and prior knowledg |
What is Qualitative Observation | an observation that deals with characteristics that cannot be exprressed in numbers |
What is Quantitative Observation | an observation that deals with a number amount |
What is Observation | the process of using one or more of your sences to gather information |
What is Science | is a way of learning about the natural world and the knowladge gained through the process |
What is Classifying | the process of grouping things based on their similarties |
What is Controlled Expariments | an experiment in which only one variable is manipulated at a time |
What is Controoled Variable | any factor that remains unchanged and strongly infuences valves' also a factor held constent to test the relitive impact of an independent variable |