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| Science is an organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world |
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| An inference is a logical interpretation based on what scientists already know |
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| An observation is an act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way |
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| A hypothesis is a scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it |
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| All other variables should be kept unchanged, or controlled are called controlled experiments |
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| An independent variable is the variable that is deliberately changed |
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| A dependent variable is a variable that is observed and that changes in response to the independent variable |
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| A control group is exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group except for one independent variable |
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Data is when scientist make detailed records of experimental observations, gathering information
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