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Scientific Method
Science
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| laboratory | a room or building equipped for scientific experiments, research, or teaching, or for the manufacture of drugs or chemicals. |
| conclusion | the end or finish of an event or process or experiment |
| procedure | an established or official way of doing something |
| hypothesis | a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation. |
| problem | a matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with and overcome. |
| control | Everything that stays the same throughout the experiment |
| data | facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis. |
| graph | a diagram (such as a series of one or more points, lines, line segments, curves, or areas) that represents the variation of a variable in comparison with that of one or more other variables |
| chart | a sheet of information in the form of a table, graph, or diagram. |
| theory | an explanation for why things work or how things happen |
| experiment | a scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact. |
| observation | a scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact.the action or process of observing something or someone carefully or in order to gain information |
| independent variable | This variable can change within an experiment |
| scientific method | a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses. |
| materials | a substance or mixture of substances that constitutes an object. |
| dependent variable | What you measure. The variable that responds to the Independent Variable |