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Science
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Qualitative | Made by gathering information that can be recorded using descriptive language |
| Quantitative | Made by gathering information that can be recorded as a number with a measurement unit |
| Inference | Not a fact, but a interpretation of what the direct observations mean |
| scientific law | Describes what scientists expect to happen every time under a particular set of comditions |
| Constant | Part of an experiment that is held in the same condition for control and experimental |
| Varible | Part of an experiment that changes |
| Independent variable | A factor in a controlled experiment that is intentionally changed by the experimenter |
| Theory | A well tested explanation for a wide range of observations or experimental results |
| Inquire | To ask for informatin |
| Responding varible | A resulting factor in a controlled experiment that is observations and measured to see if it changes due to the manipulation of another variable |
| Experiment | A course of action completed in order to a test a hypothesis |
| Control | A standard to which all other levels are compared in a scientific experment |
| Matter | Anything that has mass and takes up space |
| Physical change | Any change that alters form or appearance of matter but does not make any substance in the matter in to a different substance |
| Chemical change | Any change that changes the inside of something, but stays the same on the outside. |
| accuracy | the quality or state of being correct or precise. |
| Calibration | the action or process of calibrating an instrument or experimental readings |
| Graduated Cylinder | a piece of laboratory equipment used to measure the volume of a liquid. |
| International System of measurment | the metric system |
| Liquid | a definite volume but no fixed shape. |
| Mass | a coherent, typically large body of matter with no definite shape |
| Matter | physical substance in general, as distinct from mind and spirit; (in physics) that which occupies space and possesses rest mass, especially as distinct from energy. |
| Meniscus | the curved upper surface of a liquid in a tube. |
| Newton | A unit of measurment |
| precision | the quality, condition, or fact of being exact and accurate. |
| Triple beam balance | typical mechanical balance |
| unit | an individual thing or person regarded as single and complete but which can also form an individual component of a larger or more complex whole. |
| Volume | the amount of space that a substance or object occupies, or that is enclosed within a container, especially when great. |
| weight | a body's relative mass or the quantity of matter contained by it, giving rise to a downward force; the heaviness of a person or thing |
| pure substance | A substance made of only one kind of material having definite proportional amounts and properties |
| Mixture | Matter that consists of two or more substances not chemically combined |
| element | The simplest type of pure substances |
| Compound | Two or more elements chemically comnined |
| Homogeneous mixture | Two or more substances not chemically combined, but appearing to be evenly blened |
| Heterogeneous mixture | two or more substances not chemically combined, and appearing non-uniform with physically distinct substances included |
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