educated guess; testable; explanation based; guess fueled by background information

a way of figuring out something by observing and testing out your thoughts about it

one thing we change or test in the experiment

the thing we measure or the response to what we changed

things that we don't change, they stay the same

the group that is "normal" that we compare our test group to

no numbers, descriptions we collect/observe

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Biology

Unit 1 vocabulary

Term	Definition
Hypothesis	educated guess; testable; explanation based; guess fueled by background information
Scientific Method	a way of figuring out something by observing and testing out your thoughts about it
Independent variable	one thing we change or test in the experiment
Dependent variable	the thing we measure or the response to what we changed
Control variable	things that we don't change, they stay the same
Control group	the group that is "normal" that we compare our test group to
Qualitative data	no numbers, descriptions we collect/observe
Quantitative data	numbers we collect