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| Science is an organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world. |
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| Observation is the process of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way. |
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| Inference is a logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience. |
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| A Hypothesis is a possible explanation for a set of observations or a possible answer to a scientific question. |
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| A controlled experiment is an experiment in which only one variable is changed. |
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| An independent variable is a factor in a controlled experiment that is deliberately changed; may also be called a manipulated variable. |
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| A dependent variable is a variable that is observed and that changes in response to the independent variable; may also be called the responding variable. |
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| A control group is a group in an experiment that is exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group except for one independent variable. |
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| Data is evidence; or information gathered from observations. |
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