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Scientific Method
Scientific Skills
Experiments
Vocab.
100
The possible answer to a question in an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
100
The forecasting of what WILL happen.
What is predicting?
100
The facts, figures, and evidence gathered through an experiment.
What is data?
100
Representation of complex objects or processes.
What is a model?
200
The ONE thing that changes in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
200
When you explain or interpret the things you observe.
What is inferring?
200
The type of experiment when only ONE variable is changed at a time.
What is controlled experiment?
200
Learning about the natural world.
What is Science?
300
The response to the independent data which is the data collected or measured in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
300
The grouping of like characteristics.
What is classifying?
300
Three tools used to organize data.
What are tables, charts, graphs?
300

The group of letters we add after the root word

What is suffix?

400
The variables that should remain the same in a lab.
What is the controlled variables?
400
Comparing observations and data to reach a conclusion.
What is evaluating?
400
What a scientist must do to publish results.
What is have repeated trials with the same results?
400

the group of letters added before the root word

What is prefix?

500

If I am testing which ball bounces the highest this is the dependent variable.

What is the ball bounce height?

500
The skill I use if I think it WILL rain.
What is predicting?
500

The difference between theories and laws.

What is a law can NOT change and a theory can change with new evidence?

500
Knowing between right and wrong.
What is ethics?