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Scientific Method
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Independent Variable | A variable that is manipulated or changed to determine a relationship between two factors. |
| Dependent Variable | A factor whose values are determined by the independent variables. |
| Constant | Factors of an experiment that are kept the same and never change. |
| Control | Used as a standard of comparison, not experimented on. |
| Qualitative data | Information that is hard to measure, count or describe in numbers (involves non-numerical qualities of an object). |
| Quantitative data | Information that can be expressed in numbers. If information can be counted or measured then it is quantitative. |