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Science
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Question | About the world around you |
| Hypothesis | a possible answer to a question |
| Experiment | test a hypothesis |
| Parameters | factors that can be measured |
| Data | facts, figures, and other info gathered from experiments |
| Conclusion | is the hypothesis right/wrong |
| Communicating | sharing your results |
| Model | a physical, visual, mental, and or other representation to help people understand a concept they cannot observe directly |
| Scientific Theory | a well tested explanation of observation |
| Scientific Law | something scientists expect to happen every time |
| Science | the study of the natural world |
| Observing | using 2 or more senses to get information |
| Inferring | an interpretation based on observations and prior knowledge |
| Predicting | make a statement about the future |
| Matter | has mass and takes up space |
| Energy | work or cause change |
| Chemistry | properties of matter and energy |
| Physics | study of matter, energy, motion, and forces |
| Scientific Inquiry | the ongoing process of discovery in science: the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on evidence they gather |
| Manipulated Variable | the one factor that a scientist changes during an experiment: also called 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 |
| Controlled Experiment | an experiment in which only one variable is manipulated at a time |
| Qualitative Data | data that only uses words instead of numbers |
| Quantitative Data | data that only uses numbers instead of words |
| Graph | a picture of information from a data table: shows the relationship between variables |
| Horizontal Axis | a line that runs left to right along the bottom of the graph, on which the manipulated variable (or independent variable) is labeled |
| Vertical Axis | a line that runs up and down along the side of a graph, on which the responding variable ( or dependent variable) is labeled |
| Origin | the (0,0) point on a line graph: when the x-axis and y-axis cross on a graph |
| Coordinate | a pair of numbers used to determine the position of a point on a graph |
| Data Point | a point on a graph showing the location of a piece of data |
| Line of Best Fit | reflects general pattern of a graph: average of data |
| Linear Graph | a line graph in which the data points yield a straight line |
| Slope | the steepness of a line on a graph equal to its vertical change divided by its horizontal change |
| Nonlinear Graph | a line graph in which the data points do not fall along a straight line |
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