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| The Framework of disciplines through which we study the natural world around us. |
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| To question existing ideas and reuse to accept explanations without evidence |
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| Wiling to accept different experimental outcomes that do not agree with their hypotheses |
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| What allows a scientist to delve deeper into the world around them |
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| any occurrence that is observable -- always the starting point for a scientific investigation |
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| Act of noticing and describing an event in a careful, orderly way -- use senses! |
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| the interesting unknown that your observations lead you to ask |
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| A scientific explanation for a set of observations -- an educated guess |
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| factors in an experiment that change |
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| Factors in an experiment that remain the same |
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| the variable that is deliberately changed by the experimenter |
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| the variable that changes in response to the independent variable |
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| the group that in the study that is not exposed to the independent variable -- we need this group in order to make a comparison |
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| the group that is exposed to the independent variable |
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| Data in the form of numbers -- very objective (i.e. how many of something) |
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| Data in the form of a description -- very subjective (i.e. the color of something) |
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| The result reached at the end of an experiment |
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