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Scient Methed Vocab
Vocabulary for Scientific Method
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A scientist researches an occurrence and after many years of research finds that their hypothesis is correct . What will the experiment results become? | Scientific Law |
| Some things in science can never truly be explained but scientists have done much research and many experiments to try and explain certain phenomena in nature. What do we call their results? | Scientific Theory |
| When someone interjects their personal opinion into research we may say the results are _________ | Bias |
| The first step in the scientific method is ________________________ | Ask a question or state problem |
| A series of steps that is used to identify problems and research and experiment to find answers. | Scientific Method |
| In an experiment, what do we call the part that is being tested and can change throughout the experiment. | independent Variable |
| The part of the experiment that is being measured. This part depends on the outcome of the variable that changes. | dependent variable |
| In an experiment, you should have a part that is used for comparing your final results. Which part of the experiment is used for comparison? | control |
| There should be factors in the experiment that stay the same throughout the experiment. These are called ______________________ | constants |
| If an experiment is conducted by a group that may be bias, we may say the results are ___________________________ | unreliable |
| A statement made to explain what the researcher thinks will be the outcome of an experiment. | hypothesis |