Science Vocabulary List 1

Something you notice by using your senses (hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, feeling)

• inference

• observation

• opinion

• fact

A guess based on an observation

• opinion

• fact

• inference

• observation

Something you feel or believe. You can not prove it to be true.

• fact

• opinion

• inference

• observation

A statement that can be proven true.

• opinion

• observation

• inference

• fact

Facts about how the world works

• support

• data

• scientific facts

• analyze

Information that helps prove something is true.

• analyze

• data

• support

• scientific facts

To study closely

• analyze

• data

• support

• hand lens

Pieces of information

• support

• analyze

• data

• binoculars

A tool that makes small things look larger, you hold it in your hand

• binoculars

• hand lens

• support

• data

Makes things that are far away look closer

• hand lens

• analyze

• scientific facts

• binoculars