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Vocabulary-Kelsey
Chapter 1 section 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Science | organized way of getting and analyzing evidence about the natrual world. |
| Observations | the act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful,orderly way. |
| Inference | a logical interpretation based on what scientists already know. |
| Hypothesis | a scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it. |
| Controlled Experiment | all other variables should be kept unchanged, or controlled. |
| Independent Variable | the variable that is deliberately changed. |
| Dependent Variable | the variable that that is observed and that changes in responce to the other variable(responding variable) |
| Control Group | is exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group except for one independent variable. |
| Data | when scientist make detailed records of experimental observations, gathering information. |