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| the act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way |
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| observing and understanding something about the natural world |
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| a logical interpretation based on what scientists already know |
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| is a scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it |
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| an experiment in which only one variable changes |
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| the variable that deliberately gets changed |
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| the variable that changes in response to the independent variable |
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| is exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group except for one independent variable |
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| detailed records of experimental observations |
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