Vocabulary #1
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Vocabulary #3
Vocabulary #4
Vocabulary #5
100
classify
What is sorting of things into groups of similar items?
100
opinion
What is a personal belief or judgment based on what a person thinks or feels, but not necessarily based on scientific evidence?
100
investigation
What is a procedure carried out to carefully observe or test?
100
data
What is facts or information?
100
average
What is the total divided by the number of parts?
200
compare
What is examine qualities to discover similarities and differences?
200
order
What is organizing first to last?
200
conclusion
What is a statement based in facts?
200
control
What is part of the experiment that provides the standard against which you compare your results to?
200
variable
What is any condition that can be changed in an experiment(or math problem)?
300
communicate
What is sharing information?
300
evidence
What is information collected during a scientific investigation?
300
diagram
What is a drawing explaining information, especially without showing numbers?
300
hypothesis
What is a statement that can be tested and will explain what can happen in an investigation?
300
model
What is a scaled down version of something or a smaller representation?
400
science
What is the study of natural world, involves making observations and performing investigations?
400
observe or observation
What is using five senses to collect information?
400
ask questions
What is: "What scientists (including 5th grade scientists) do that is the basis for their investigations?"
400
analyze
What is looking at the parts of something in order to study more closely and carefully?
400
procedure
What is set of instructions?
500
inference
What is an idea or conclusion based on an observation?
500
knowledge
What is facts and information collected over time?
500
experiment
What is a procedure used to test a hypothesis?
500
predict
What is tell what is going to happen or what the result will be?
500
record
What is write down information or data?