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Science Vocab
Vocabulary for science quiz
Term | Definition |
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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 |