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Scientific Method
| Hypothesis | possible explanation or answer to a question;"educated guess" |
| observation | describe what you are seeing, smelling, hearing, or tasting |
| inferance | drawing a conclusion based on data and observation |
| constant variables | variables that are kept the same to control the experiment |
| independent variable | variables that are intentionally changed to see their affect |
| dependent variable | variable being tested and mesured |
| Qualitative data | observable data that is not measured |
| quantitative data | data which can be measured |
| metric system | universal method of measurement based on number 10 developed by Lavoisier |
| liter | the base unit of measuring volume in metric system |
| meter | the base unit of measurement for length in metric system |
| gram | the base unit of measurement for mass in metric system |