Vocabulary words
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| label | a short word or phrase descriptive of a person, group, intellectual movement, etc. a word or phrase indicating that what follows belongs in a particular category or classification
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| label | each of the small, thin horny or bony plates protecting the skin of fish and reptiles, typically overlapping one another.
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| Plot | A plot is a graphical technique for representing a data set, usually as a graph showing the relationship between two or more variables.
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| Interpret | explain the meaning of
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| Variable | An independent variable is defines as the variable that is changed or controlled in a scientific experiment.
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| Independent variable | An independent variable is defines as the variable that is changed or controlled in a scientific experiment.
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| Dependent variable | In a scientific experiment, you cannot have a dependent variable without an independent variable.
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| Problem | is something you don't understand but you can do an experiment to help you understand
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| Research | is the systematic investigation of scientific theories and hypotheses
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| Hypothesis | A hypothesis is a single assertion, a proposed explanation of something based on available knowledge, for something yet to be explained.
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| Experiment | t A test under controlled conditions that is made to demonstrate a known truth, to examine the validity of a hypothesis, or to determine the efficacy of something previously untried.
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| Data | is defined as information collected using specific methods for a specific purpose of studying or analyzing
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| Conclusion | summarize how your results support or contradict your original hypothesis
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| Control (group) | is defined as the group in an experiment or study that does not receive treatment by the researchers and is then used as a benchmark to measure how the other tested subjects do.
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| Experimental (group) | the experimental group (or experimental condition) refers to the group of participants who are exposed to the independent variable.
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| Controlled variables | The control variable (or scientific constant) in scientific experimentation is the experimental element which is constant and unchanged throughout the course of the investigation.
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| Placebo | an inactive substance or other sham form of therapy administered to a patient usually to compare its effects with those of a real drug o
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