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Method of science
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Criteria | The gole you are trying to meet. |
| Constraint | Limitations: money and time |
| Prototype | Is a working model of the solution |
| Mean | Average of your data: add the data and divide by the number of numbers in the set |
| Median | Middle number when put in numerical order |
| Mode | The data that Shows up more often |
| Range | Difference between the largest and smallest data -subtracting the smallest from the largest. |
| Ethics | |
| Quantity | Uses a number to describe something |
| Qualitative | Uses characteristics to describe things |
| Opinion | Personal feelings that cannot be tested scientifically |
| Independent variable | Factors that you change in an experiment |
| Depends variable | Factors that you measure in an experiment |
| Niche | Include an organism obtained its food, the type of food organism eats, and what other organisms eat. |
| Interaction | Takes place among organisms every day |
| competition | The struggle between organisms to survive as they use the same limited resources |
| Prediction | An interaction in which one organism kills another for food or nutrients. |
| Symbiosis | any relationship in which two species live closely together |
| Commensalism | A relationship in which one species benefits, and the other species is neither helped or harmed |