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Unit 1 lesson 1&2
Term | Definition |
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Empirical Evidence | The observations, measurments, and other types of data that people gather and test to support and evaluate scientific explainations |
Theory | A system of ideas that explains many related observations and is supported by a large body of evidence acquired by scientific investigation |
Law | A descriptive statement or equation that reloliably predicts events under certain conditions |
Expirement | An organized procedure to study something under controlled conditions |
Observation | The process of obtaining information by using the sense |
Hypothesis | A testable idea or explaination that leads to scientific investigation |
Independent Variable | In a scientific investigation, the factor that is deliberately manipulated |
Dependent Variable | In a scientific investigation, the factor that changes as a result or manipulation of one or more independent variables |
Data | Information gathered by observation or experimentations that can be used in calculating or reasoning |