Scientific M Terms Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
data | Facts that have been uncovered scientifically by systematic observations or experiments. |
fact | Information that is true. |
science | Knowledge about the natural world gathered systematically |
hypothesis | developed to explain a fact |
correlation | the mutual relationship between two or more things |
scientific method | Means of investigating a testable question using empirical information gathered from experiments, experience, or observations |
Independent variable | The one factor that will be changed. |
mechanism | Process by which something takes place |
causation | Relationship between an event and another event in which one event causes the other event |
Dependent variable | The factors that depend on the independent variable |
law | Explanation that always applies under the same circumstances |
principle of uniformitarianism | trying to get everyone to follow the same process in order to get the same results |
scientific model | used to explain things that are too big or too small to be studied in an experiment/ things that are too complex |
control | nothing is changed, |
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