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Campos vocab words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| SCIENCE | A way of learning about the natural world and the knowledge gained through that process |
| SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY | The diverse ways in which scientists explore |
| SCIENTIFIC THEORY | A well tested concept that explains a wide range of observations |
| OBSERVATIONS | Using all five senses to gather information |
| INFERENCE | an interpretation based on data and prior knowledge |
| HYPOTHESIS | a possible guess for a set of observations or an explanation to a scientific theory |
| CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT | an experiment in which all conditions except one are kept the same |
| VARIABLE | anything that can change in an experiment |
| MANIPULATED VARIABLE | the experimental factor that a scientist manipulates during an experiment; also called the independent variable |
| RESPONDING VARIABLE | the variable that may change as a result of changes made by the independent variable in an experiment also called the dependent variable |
| DATA | the facts figures ad other statistics gained through observations |