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| An act of noting and recording an event, characteristic, behavior, or anything else detected with an instrument or with the senses. |
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| observations that describe, sight, sounds, smells, and textures. |
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| Can be measured, expressed in numbers that include records or time, temperature, mass, distance, and volume |
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| expectation of what will be observed or what will happen |
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| a tentative explanation, educated guess that can be tested. IF, THEN, BECAUSE statement. |
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| logical conclusion drawn from available evidence and prior knowledge. Made from observations. |
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| a slanted point of view, or personal prejiduce. Can affect the conclusions of a researcher. |
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| to examine part of something. |
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| to just something on the criteria you have established |
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| information that is strictly defined and proved true. |
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| a statement that expresses belief, value, or feeling. |
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| chart to organize and record measurements that you make. |
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| show relationships between variables. Changes over time |
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| R25 pie chart, data in a circle. Used only when data is expressed in percentages of a whole. |
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| lengths of the bars are used to represent and compare data. Numberal scale is used to determine length |
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| organized procedure to study something. |
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| any factor (conditions, relationships) that can be changed |
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| factors that stay the same with control and experiment groups |
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| factor that you wish to test and IS manipulated so that it can be tested. Expressed after the word IF in your hypothesis |
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| variable that changed, factor that you measure. Expressed after the word THEN in your hypothesis. |
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| an instrument that uses a set of 3 sliding riders to balance an unknown weight on the pan |
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| the amount of matter in an object |
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| a simple machine made of a stiff beam that pivots on a lever |
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| a weight used to measure mass on a triple beam balance. |
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