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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 act of noticing and describing events in a careful, orderly way |
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| An infrence is a logical interpretation based on what scientists already know. |
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| A hypothesis is a scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it. |
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| A controlled expierement is a test where all variables remain unchanged |
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| A independant variable is a variable that is delibratly changed |
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| A dependent variable is the variable that is observed and changes in response to the independent variable |
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| A control group is exposed to the same conditions as a expieremental group except for one independent variable |
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| Data is records of the expierements that the scientists have conducted. |
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