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science
Term | Definition |
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qualitive observation | made by gathering information that can be recorded using descriptive language |
quanitive observation | made by gathering information that can be recorded as a number with a measurmentunit |
inference | not at fact but an interpretation of what the direct observation mean |
scientific law | describes what scientist expect to happen every time under a particular set of conditions |
constant | part of an expiremnet that is held in the same condition for a control in an expirement |
variable | part of an expirement that changes |
manipulated variable | a factor in a controlled expirement that is intentionally changed by the expirementer |
scientific theory | a well tested explenationfor a wide range of observations or expiriment results |
inquiry | to ask information |
responding | a resulting factor in a controlled expirement that is observed and measured to see if it changes due to manipulated of another variable |
expirement | a course of action completed in ordee to test a hypothesis |
control | a standard of which all other levels are compared in a scientific expirement |
matter | anything that has a mass and takes up space |
physical | any change that alters form and apperiance of the matter does not make any substance in the matter into a different substance |
chemical | a change in matter that produces one or more new substances |
weight | is the pull on an object |
mass | matter in an object |