Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Content
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the logical explanation of an observation that is drawn from prior knowledge or experience
What is an inference?
100
the interpretation of observations
What is an explanation?
100
the possible explanation for an observation that can be tested by scientific investigations
What is a hypothesis?
100
the investigation and exploration of natural events
What is science?
100
the state where the Minneapolis bridge collapse of 2017
What is MN?
200
the spoken or written summary of observations
What is description?
200
the rule that describes a repeatable pattern in nature
What is scientific law?
200
using 1 or more of your senses to gather information
What is an observation?
200
the factor you want to test
What is the independent variable?
200
A triple beam balance is used to measure
What is mass?
300
any factor that can have more than one value
What is a variable?
300
the practical use of scientific knowledge
What is technology?
300
a statement of what will happen next in a sequence of events
What is a prediction?
300
the internationally accepted system of measurement
What is SI (International System of Units)
300
a graduated cylinder is used to measure
What is liters or milliliters
400
this is used to study how a change in the independent variable changes the dependent variable
What is the experimental group?
400
the factor you observe or measure during an experiment
What is the dependent variable?
400
the explanation of observations that is based on knowledge gained from many observations and investigations
What is scientific theory?
400
the expression of error as a percentage of the accepted value
What is percent error?
400
the type of paper used to measure the acidity of a liquid
What is pH?
500
comparing what you know with the info you are given in order to decide whether you agree with it
What is critical thinking?
500
a factor in an experiment that stays the same
What is the constant?
500
this contains the same factors as the experimental group but the independent variable is not changed
What is the control group?
500
the kind of data is described using numbers
What is quantitative data?
500
The SI unit for weight
What is a Newton?
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