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What is the scientific method?
The scientific method is a process used to find answers to questions about the world around us.
What is the variable that gets measured?
Dependent variable
What is a hypothesis?
It is an educated guess based on observations and your knowledge of the topic.
What is the independent variable also called?
Manipulated variable
What is a well-tested explanation for experimental results?
Scientific Theory
What is data?
It is information gathered during an experiment.
What is the one variable that is changed?
What describes an observed pattern in nature?
Scientific Law
What are the steps to solving a problem?
Identify the Problem, Form a Hypothesis, Create an experiment, Perform the experiment, Analyze data and draw conclusions (modify the experiment, if inaccurate), communicate the results
What is the group that shows the effect of the variable being tested?
Experimental group
What are the many ways in which scientists study the natural world?
Scientific Inquiry
What is a process that scientists use to better understand the world around them?
What is the group that is left alone and not experimented on?
Control group
What are the steps to form the scientific method?
Making observations, asking a question, forming a hypothesis, designing an experiment, collecting and analyzing data, and drawing a conclusion