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| information gathered through your 5 senses |
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| an explanation or interpretation of an observation |
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| refers to an observation that does NOT have a counting number |
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| refers to an observation that includes the count or number of something |
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| an explanation that makes sense based on the data or evidence gathered |
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| an inference that does NOT make sense based on the evidence or data gathered |
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| an inference about a future event based on current evidence or past experience |
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anything in an experiment that can change or be changed |
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| the condition that is changed or being tested by the experiment |
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| the outcome that is measured or observed in the experiment |
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| control variable (constant) |
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| the variables that should not be allowed to have an effect on the experiment |
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| the group that receives the experimental treatment |
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| group or individual in the experiment that is not tested, but is used for comparison as a reference for what “normal” would be like |
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| what will be answered by performing the experiment |
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| information collected concerning the question; can be prior knowledge |
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| statement of how the experimenter thinks the independent variable will affect the dependent variable |
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| format used to write a scientific hypothesis, it includes both the independent variable and the dependent variable |
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| instructions written in numbered steps that explain exactly how the experiment is to be performed |
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| information gathered through observation |
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| visual method of displaying data in order to make sense of it |
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| statements of how the independent variable affected the dependent variable, this should be only based on the collected evidence from the experiment |
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| doing the experiment completely through several times (at least 3 times) to gather enough data to make a good conclusion |
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