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8 Science Test 1
8 Science vocab for Test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Qualitative Observation | Data using characteristics or qualities |
| Quantitative Observation | Data using quantities or numbers. |
| Inference | An educated guess from the evidence of an experiment. |
| Hypothesis | An educated guess |
| Independent Variable | is the part of the experiment that is being tested or the part that is being changed by the scientist. |
| Dependent Variable | The part of the experiment that is affected by the independent variable. It is what is being measured. |
| Control Group | The part of an experiment that is not being tested and is used for comparison. The "normal" situation. |
| Constant | is the one or many things, in an experiment that DOES NOT change. |
| Results | The ending of an experiment. The outcome. |
| Conclusion | What the scientist writes at the end of an experiment which summarizes the experiment and the results. |
| Problem | The 1st step of the Scientific Method. |
| Procedure | The steps you use during an experiment. |