8th Grade Science Midterm Review

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Is collecting data an essential part of scientific inquiry?

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False

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To analyze

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to look closely

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A prediction is

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a guess

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An educated guess that can be tested is

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a hypothesis

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To infer you use

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prior knowledge

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You use your five senses to find out about the world around you. This is called ______.

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observations

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In an experiment recording the growth of plants under different amounts of sunlight, what is the dependent variable?

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The growth

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The variable that causes a change is the

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independent variable

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The variable that is the result of the experiment is the

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dependent variable

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A variable that never changes is known as a

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constant