Scientific Investigation Vocabulary
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| hypothesis | An educated guess/prediction about what will happen based on what you already know and what you have already learned from your research.
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| inference | A tentative explanation based on background knowledge and available data.
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| prediction | A forecast about what may happen in some future situation, based on the application of factual information and principles and the recognition of trends and patterns.
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| experiment | A fair test driven by a hypothesis.
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| conclusion | A summary statement based on the results of an investigation. Scientific conclusions are based on verifiable observations.
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| dependent variable | The factor in an experiment that changes as a result of the manipulation of the independent variable.
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| independent variable | The factor in an experiment that is altered by the experimenter. It is purposely changed on manipulated.
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| constants | the things that are purposefully kept the same throughout the experiment.
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| scientific prediction | a forecast about what may happen in some future situation, based on the application of factual information and principles and the recognition of trends and patterns.
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| classification key | an important tool used to help identify objects and organisms.
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| mass | the amount of matter in an object.
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| volume | the amount of space occupied by an object.
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| milliliter | a unit of liquid volume.
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| length | the distance between two points.
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| millimeter | one-thousandth of a meter and 1/10 of a centimeter.
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| centimeter | a unit of length in the metric system; one-hundredth of a meter, or about two-fifths of an inch, about the width of a large clip.
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| meter | a unit for measuring metric length; is equal to about 1 yard.
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| kilometer | a metric unit and is a little smaller than 1 mile.
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| temperature | measure of how hot or cold something is.
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| degrees | units of temperature.
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| Celsius | metric unit for temperature
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| estimation | method of making an educated guess at a measurement.
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