Science Vocab 1
Information gathered using the senses
What is observation?
A pattern/a prevailing tendency
What is trend?
Statements and observations that include additional knowledge
What is inference?
A prediction or educated guess that answers a question
What is hypothesis?
Factors that are kept the same or constant during an experiment
What is control?
A factor that changes in an experiment
What is variable?
One of a number of repetitions of an experiment
What is trial?
Anything that sways an experiment's results in a way that makes them inaccurate
What is bias?
What an experiment is considered if the same process can be repeated by other scientists to produce the same results
What is reliable?
A hypothesis that can be answered through investigation
What is testable hypothesis?
The process during an experiment in which every condition that is different is account for and held constant
What is controlling the variables?
A procedure designed to answer a scientific question
What is investigation design?
Parts of the experiment that can be controlled
What are limitations?
The answer or solution to a hypothesis
What is conclusion?
A series of steps used to gather and test information
What is scientific method?
An experiment in which only one variable is changed
What is fair test?
It is possible to reach results that prove the hypothesis to be false
What is falsifiable?
A specific belief about the hypothesis
What is prediction?
Factors that are changed in response to the independent variable during an experiment
What is dependent variable?
A relationship between variables in which an increase or decrease in one variable causes the other variable to do the same
What is direct relationship?
Factor that are changed by a scientist during an experiment
What is independent variable?
The process of inspecting and interpreting data to discover useful information about drawing conclusions
What is analyzing data?
A relationship between variables in which an increase or decrease in one variable causes the other to do the opposite
What is linear relationship?
A relationship between variables that indicates that rate of change is either increasing or decreasing
What is nonlinear relationship?