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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1. science | scienceid the investgation and explorationn of natrul events and of the new information that results from investigation |
| 2. obvservation | using one or more of ur sences to gather information and take notes of what ocurs |
| 3. infrince | a logical explanation of an obvservation that is drawn from prior knowlage or experiance |
| 4. hypothsis | Your hypothisis might be: some plants are growingtaller and more quicky then others because they are receving more water and sunlight |
| 5. predication | a statement of what will happen next in a sequence of events for intstance, based on ur hypothisis u may infer some plants recive more water then others |
| 6. technoligy | televison, MP3 players, and computersare examples of technoligy. |
| 7. sciencetific theryoy | is an explanatian of observation or events based on knowlage gained from mant observations and invastigation |
| 8. critical thinking | is comparing what u already know with the information u are given or already know |
| 9. sinceific law | discribes a patern or an event in nature that is always true |
| 10. discription | a spoken or written summry of observations |
| 11. explaination | an interpretaion of observation |
| 12. accuracy | a desciptation of how close a measurment an accepted or true value |
| 13. precison | is a despration of how simalar close mesurments areto each other |
| 14. significt digits | are the number of digits in a mesurements that are known with a certian degree of reliabil-ity |
| 15. international System of units (S1). | it adpoted an nternationally accrpyed system for measurment |
| 16. variable | is any factor in an expirement that can have more then one valure |
| 17. dependent varible | is the factor measurd or observed during an exprimant |
| 18. indipendint varible | is the factor that u want to test |
| 19. constaints | are the factors in an expermant that remain the same |