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9th Grade
09/09/2014

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SCIENCE
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an organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural wolrd
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OBSERVATION
Definition
process of noticing and describing event or processes in a careful, orderly way
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INFERENCE
Definition
a logical interpretation n prior knowledge and experience
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CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT
Definition
experiment in which only one variable is changed
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INDEPENDENT VARIABLE
Definition
factor in a controlled experiment that is deliberately changed
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DEPENDENT VARIABLE
Definition
variable that is observed and that changes in response to the independent variable
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HYPOTHESIS
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possible explanation for a set of observations or possible answer to a scientific question
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CONTROLLED GROUP
Definition
group in an experiment that is exposed to the same conditions as the experimental except for one independent variable
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DATA
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evidence; information gathered from observations
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