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Scientific Method
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A way of learning about the natural world that provides possible explanations to questions. | Science |
| Using one or more of your senses to identify or learn about something. | Observation |
| A conclusion formed from available information of evidence. | Inference |
| A scientific experiment that involves changing one factor and observing its effect on one thing while keeping all other things constant. | Controlled Experiment |
| A representation of an object or an event that is used a tool for understanding the natural world. | Model |
| The variable that is changed in an experiment. | Independent Variable |
| The variable that changes as a result of a change in the independent variable. | Dependent Variable |
| A series of steps that scientist use when preforming an experiment. | Scientific Method |
| An explanation that can be tested with a scientific investigation. | Hypothesis |
| Information gathered during an investigation; recorded in the form of descriptions, tables, graphs and drawings. | Data |
| How closely measurements are to each other and how carefully measurements were made. | Precision |
| The ability to repeat a task with little variation. | Consistency |
| A summary of observations. | Description |
| An interpretation of observations. | Explantion |
| Descriptions of the natural world using words. | Qualitative Data |
| Descriptions of the natural world using numbers. | Quantitative Data |