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Science is an organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world.
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| An observation is a process of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way. |
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| An inference is a logical interpretation based on prior knowlege or expirience. |
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| A hypothesis is a possible explanation for a set of observations or possible anser to a scientific question. |
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| A controlled expirence is an expirment in which only one variable is changed. |
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| An independant variable is a factor in a controlled expirement that is deliberatly changed. |
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| A dependant variable is a variable that is observed and changes in response to the independant variable. |
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| A control group is a group in a expirement that is exposed to the same conditions as the expiremental group expected for the independant variable. |
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| Data is evidence, information gathered from observations. |
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