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Week 1 Vocabulary
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Science
9th Grade
08/22/2016

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Hypothesis
Definition
An if/then statement based on an educated guess that it used to find answers to questions about the world around us.
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Bar Graph
Definition
used to compare different quantities or groups
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Line Graph
Definition
Used to track changes over time
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Circle Graph
Definition
comparing parts of a whole
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Observation
Definition
A statement made based on what we can detect with our five senses
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Inference
Definition
An educated guess based on your observations
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Qualitative Observation
Definition
Using something’s qualities to describe it by using like or as.
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Quantitative Observation
Definition
Uses numbers to describe the amount.
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Independent Variable
Definition
Something “you” change in order to test the experiment
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Dependent variable
Definition
something that changes as a result of what you changed in the experiment
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Control
Definition
Something that is not changed in order to show a comparison
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