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Lesson 1.1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Science | an organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world |
| Inference | a logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience |
| Hypothesis | possible explanation for a set of observations that can be tested |
| Variables | the factors that can change in an experiment |
| Controlled Experiment | experiment where only one variable is changed |
| Independent Variable | factor in a controlled experiment that is deliberately changed |
| Dependent Variable | variable that is observed and that changes in response to the independent variable |
| Control Group | group in an experiment that is exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group except for the independent variable |
| Experimental Group | group in an experiment for which the independent variable has changed (the group being experimented) |
| Quantitative Data | data represented by numbers |
| Quanlitative Data | descriptive data that cannot be counted |
| Biology | the study of life |