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| The knowledge obtained by observing natural events and conditions in order to discover facts and formulate laws and opinions. |
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| Performing experiments in order to increase scientific knowledge. |
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| The application of science for practical reasons. |
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| When many experimental results tell how something works. |
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| An explanation for something based on observations or a few experiments. |
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| The first step of the scientific method. Noticing something with your physical senses. |
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| Making a guess about what will happen. |
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| The tools scientists use to conduct experiments. |
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| A representation of an object of event that can be studied to understand the real object or event. |
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| Thinking about all parts of something. |
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| A series of steps used to solve a problem: observe, make a question, collect information, make a hypothesis, test the hypothesis, collect data, analyze the data, make a conclusion. |
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| The part of the experiment that the scientist purposely changes. |
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| The part of the experiment that shows the result. It's the part of the experiment you measure. |
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| The metric system of units that is used by all scientists around the world. |
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| An experiment where only one variable is changed and all others are kept the same. |
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| A scientist's guess about what the outcome of the experiment will be. |
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| To change from one unit to another. |
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| A method of writing very large or very small numbers as a single number multiplied by ten to a power. |
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| The exactness of a measurement. How close together your measurements are or how many significant figures are used in a measurement. |
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| A description of how close the measurement is to the actual value. |
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| How many important digits are in a number. |
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