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Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Science | A way of learning about the natural world and the knowlged gained though that process |
| Scientific inquiry | The diverse ways in which scientists expore problems and seek to answer questions about the natural world |
| Observation | using all five senses to gather infromation |
| inference | An interpretation based on obsevation and pirior knowedge |
| Hypothesis | A possible explation for a set of observations or an ansewer to a scentific Question |
| Controlled exeriment | An experiment in which all factors expect one are kept consent |
| Variable | Any factor that can be changed in an experiment |
| Manipulated variable | The one factor that a scientist changes during an experiment also called the independent variable in a experiment |
| Responding variable | The factor that changes as a result of changes made by the manipulated variable in an experiment also called the dependent variable |
| Data | The facts, figures, and other evidence gained though observations |
| scientific theory | A well - tested concept that explain a wide range of obsrstions |