Vocabulary I
A testable explanation of a situation or event that is formulated during a scientific investigation.
What is a Hypothesis?
Scientists study.
What is ALL aspects of the natural world?
The last step in the scientific method.
What is to share your results?
Performed during a scientific investigation under controlled conditions to test a hypothesis and collect data.
What is an experiment?
Experiments are performed under.
What is Controlled Conditions?
The gathering of information about the natural world using your senses or devices that can extend and measure your senses.
What is an Observation?
Scientists make assumptions regarding the natural world that can be understood through.
What is a Systematic Study?
The first step of a scientific investigation.
What is to ask a question or make an observation.
The process of finding answers to a possible question or observation using various methods and techniques that scientists have defined as characteristics in the development of science.
What is a Scientific Investigation?
Data gathered from experiments that agree with your predictions and are supportive of your hypothesis.
What is Scientific Evidence?
Using prior knowledge to make an educated guess on what you think will happen during a situation or an event.
What is a Prediction?
Scientists make predictions that pertain to future and past experiments and that are.
What is Consistent with a Hypothesis?
The step to follow before you conduct an experiment but after you form your hypothesis.
What is to gather additional information?
The process of combining information that you already know with what you have learned to draw logical conclusions.
What is an Inference?
Factors in experiments that can be changed.
What are Variables?
A procedure or steps to follow when conducting a scientific investigation.
What is the Scientific Method?
To increase the understanding of the natural world.
What is the goal of Scientists?
The step to immediately follow when conducting an experiment but proceeds the final step of sharing your results.
The study of living organisms and vital processes.
What is Biology?
Experiments include two variables.
What is the Independent and Dependent Variables?
A broad explanation for natural events that are widely accepted and supported by many observations and experiments over time.
What is a Scientific Theory?
Scientists gradually build.
What is an increasingly accurate and detailed understanding of the natural world?
the second step in the process of conducting a scientific investigation, in which you are making a testable statement.
What is forming a hypothesis or making a prediction?
A statement describing a situation or event that is ALWAYS true in nature.
What is a Scientific Law?
An experiment is based on a comparison between two groups.
What is a Control Group and an Experimental Group?