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Science Vocab
Vocabulary for science quiz
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Scientific experiment | An experiment designed to test the effect of one thing on another thing |
| Control | Something that isn't changed, nothing applied to it |
| Variable | Something that can be changed, can have something applied to it |
| Independent variable | The treatment applied to the scientific items |
| Dependent variable | What happens when the treatment is applied |
| Constants | All the other variables in the experiment that are kept the same |
| Sample size | The amount of times the experiment is repeated the exact same way |
| Data | The information recorded during the experiment |
| Valid | When the results of the experiment are valid there was only one variable that had an effect |
| Invalid | When the results of the experiment are invalid there was more than one variable that had an effect |