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science words to know
Term | Definition |
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label | it's used for variety of purpose like product identification, advertising and warnings. |
scale | is defined as a system or series of marks used for measuring or registering. |
plot | is a literary term that refers to how narrative point are arranged to make a story understandable to the reader or observer. |
interpret | mostly like a hidden meaning of parable to construe or understand in a particular way. |
variable | the experimenter changes to test their dependent variable. |
independent variable | it's defined as a variable that is changed or controlled in a scientific experiment. |
dependent variable | is the variable that's being tested and measured in a scientific experiment. |
problem | something you don't understand but you can do an experiment to help you understand. |
research | can be followed a series of steps and the standard protocol of the experiment, depending on the conventions of the field of science. |
hypothesis | an idea or explanation that you can test through study and experimentation. |
experiment | a test under controlled conditions that is made to demonstrate a known truth to examine the validity of a hypothesis or to determine the efficacy of something previously untried. |
data | it's an information collected using specific methods for a specific purpose of studying or analyzing. |
conclusion | it's used in a few sentences and is used in a summary to support your conclusion. |
control (group) | in a experiment or a study that does not receive treatment by the researchers and is then used as a benchmark to measure how the other tested subject do. |
experimental (group) | it receives the variable being tested. |
constant(s) | it's a number that is fixed and known it's unlike the variable which changes with the context. |
controlled variables | it's either a person, group or event that is used as a constant and unchanging standard of comparison in scientific experimentation. |
placebo | it's a fake treatment,an inactive substance like sugar, distilled water,or saline solution. |