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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Descriptive Research | research based on observations. |
| Controlled Variables | variables that changes, but aren't allowed to. |
| Experimental Research | Answers scientific questions by testing a hypothesis through the use of a series of carefully controlled steps. |
| Technology | applications of science to make products or tools people can use. |
| Trend | a general direction in data. |
| Experimental Design | a plan for deciding how to answer a scientific question. |
| Scientific Theory | an explanation supported by facts. |
| Dependent Variable | the factor that'll be measured in an experiment. |
| Theory | describes ideas that've been tested and provides data for the ideas. |
| Line Graph | used for showing changes or trends. |
| Data Analysis | reducing the data: finding the average, graphing data, and looking for relationships. |
| Independent Variable | the variable that has changed or tested by scientists. |
| Scientific Method | step by step procedures of scientific problem solving. |
| Qualitative | data that describes its qualities or characteristics: color sound taste. |
| Laws | rules that describes a pattern in nature supported with mathematical evidence. |
| Control Group | a group that has had nothing done to it. |
| Inference | a conclusion drawn from an observation. |
| Relationship | the effect of one variable to another. |
| Science | is a way or a process used to investigate what is happening around you. A process of trying to understand the world. |
| Bias | personal opinions, when points of view interfere in a investigation, or certain results expected. |
| Bar Graph | used for showing comparisons. |
| Quantitative | data that's numeral, gathered by using tools: mass distance, volume, time, temperature. |
| Observations can be | qualitative and quantitative. |
| Observations in science uses | senses and tools. |
| Two general types of scientific research | descriptive/qualitative and experimental. |
| Stating a research question you | describe the question you want to answer. |
| Independent Variables are sometimes called | manipulated variables. |
| Dependent Variables are sometimes called | responding variables. |
| Controlled Variables are sometimes called | constant variables. |
| A trend is | changes; increases, decreases in data. |
| A pattern is | repeated data that is similar. |
| A relationship is | repeated data that is similar |