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vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Scientific Inquiry | The diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on the evidence they gather. |
| Hypothesis | A possible explanation for a set of observations or answer to a scientific question; must be testable. |
| Variable | A factor inan experiment that can change. |
| Controlled Experiment | An experiment in which only one variable is manipulated at a time. |
| Manipulated Variable | The one factor that a scientist changes during an experiment; also called an independent variable. |
| Responding Variable | The factor that changes as a result of changes to the manipulated, or independent, variable in an experiment; also called dependent variable |
| Data | Facts, figures and other evidence gathered through observations. |