Section Review 1: A Scientific Method (Vocabulary)
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| Natural Phenomena | Observable facts or events in the world around us.
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| Hypothesis | An educated guess at the solution to your problem.
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| Five Senses | Sight, touch, smell, sound, and taste.
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| Observations | The act of noticing or perceiving.
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| Dependent (Responding) Variable | The factor that is being measured.
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| Control Variable | Other factors in experiment; they are constant.
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| Experimental Group | The group being tested.
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| Control Group | The group that the experimental group will be tested against.
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| Qualitative Data | Observations made with senses.
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| Research | Investigation.
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| Journal | A specialized publication.
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| Peer Review | An article that is scrutinized (reviewed) by anonymous scientists in a similar field (peers).
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| Inductive Reasoning | Allows drawing of observations of specific events or hypothesizing particular events.
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| Quantitative Data | Measurements- expressed as number, or quantified.
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| Diagram | An image that shows the relationships between things.
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| Table | Results of data in which both qualitative and quantitative data can be organized into.
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| Graph | A diagram representing data.
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| Chart | A graph of a dependent variable.
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| Deductive Reasoning | Requiring the use of a general truth to hypothesize particular events.
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| Scientific Experiment | An experiment designed to give measurable results, which support or do not support the hypothesis.
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| Reproducible | A copy, or duplicate, of a scientific experiment.
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| Variable | The factors that affect an experiment, so that meaningful data can be collected.
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| Independent (Manipulated) Variable | Factors that are changed during an experiment.
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| Conclusion | Judgement based on observations and experimentation.
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| Inference | An idea involving the use of the conclusion as starting point in inductive reasoning.
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| Model | Description for a system, theory, or phenomenon based on characteristics and/or properties.
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| Prediction | Forecast of possible results of events.
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