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Vocabulary
Study of Science
Measurement
Variables
Miscellaneous
100
Description of how close a measurement is to the actual or true value
What is accuracy?
100
The natural sciences are normally divided into the life, earth/space, and ________________.
What is physical science?
100
The base unit for length in the metric system.
What is meter?
100

What is the variable that is manipulated (changed on purpose) by the scientist?

What is the Independent Variable?

100
What you use to record and display your data when looking for relationships among the variables.
What is a data table or graph?
200
After makings observations you begin to draw these conclusions.
What is an inference?
200
The type of data the scientists record from making observations based on measurements in science?
What is quantitative data?
200

Rihanna is measuring the change in temperature in these units

What is Celsius?

200

What is the variable that stays the same?

What is the constant?

200
After making observations and inferences you create this which is a possible explanation of your observations and can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
300
The investigation and exploration of natural events that occur in the world around us.
What is science?
300
A representation of something in the natural world, typically too small or large to study up close.
What is a model?
300
The measure of the amount of space an object takes up and its base unit.
What is volume and liter?
300

The variable that responds to what is being changed and can be mesured

What is the dependent variable?

300

If your hypothesis is proven correct this is the next step in the process.

What is repeat the test? or What is share your results?

400
A well-supported explanation of the natural world (hint: explains WHY something happens).
What is theory?
400

Scientists should always share this with other scientist after their scientific investigation

What is their results

400

Chelsea measures the volume of her beverage in this unit

What is liters?

400

Name the control to the following experiment. How does sugar water affect the growth of a plant?

What is plain water?

400
The axis that is used to plot the responding/outcome variable.
What is the y axis?
500

Describes a pattern of nature that is always true

What is a law?

500
Explain how to design a valid experiment.
What is to create experiment procedures that help to answer the problem question? OR What is to carefully design/control the variables in an experinment (constant, IV, DV)?
500

Jordan uses this unit to measure the mass of his HD TV 

What is grams?

500

DAILY DOUBLE: How does parachute size affect the rate of a falling object? The independent variable. The dependent variable.

What is the size of the parachute? What is the rate of a falling object?

500

The moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity. 

What is ethics?