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Science Vocab
| word | definition |
|---|---|
| science | the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. |
| observing | an act or instance of viewing or noting a fact or occurrence for some scientific or other special purpose. |
| inferring | deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements. |
| chemistry | the branch of science that deals with the identification of the substances of which matter is composed. |
| physics | the branch of science concerned with the nature and properties of matter and energy. |
| scientific inquiry | the activities through which students develop knowledge and understanding of scientific ideas, as well as an understanding of how scientists study the natural world |
| hypothesis | an idea or explanation that you then test through study and experimentation |
| parameter | measure |
| manipulated variable | The thing that is changed on purpose |
| responding variable | the one that is observed and likely changes in response to the independent variable. |
| controlled experiment | a test where the person conducting the test only changes one variable at a time in order to isolate the results |
| qualitative data | anything that can be expressed as a number, or quantified |
| quantitative data | any kind of data that can be measured numerically |
| communicating | public communication presenting science-related topics to non-experts |
| model | A systematic description of an object or phenomenon that shares important characteristics with the object or phenomenon |
| scientific theory | a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experimen |
| scientific law | a statement based on repeated experimental observations that describes some aspects of the universe. |
| graph | a diagram representing a system of connections or interrelations among two or more things by a number of distinctive dots, lines, bars, etc. |
| horizontal axis | a graph or two- or three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system along which the x-coordinate is measured |
| vertical axis | a graph or two- or three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system along which the y-coordinate is measured |
| origin | the zero at the bottom left corner of a graph |
| coordinate | to place in the same rank |
| data point | any single fact |
| line of best fit | a straight line drawn through the center of a group of data points plotted on a scatter plot |
| linear graph | a pictorial rendition of data in which specific values of a function are plotted as dots on a coordinate plane |
| slope | to incline away from a relatively straight surface or line used as a reference |
| nonlinear graph | a graph with no points plotted |
| predicting | an educated guess |
| data | facts or pieces of information |
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