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Unit 1 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fact | Information that has been objectively verified |
| Hypothesis | A possible explanation for an observation that can be tested |
| Inquiry | A systematic process for using knowledge and skills to acquire and apply to new knowledge |
| Law | A summarizing statement of observed experimental facts that has been tested many times and is generally accepted as true |
| Mass | A measure of how much matter an object has; the number of atoms in an object |
| Matter | Anything that has mass and takes up space |
| Prediction | A guess of what might happen based on observation |
| Theory | An explanation for how or why things happen in nature based on observation and experimental data |
| Variable | Any |