ACT Science Vocab Terms

Define ASSUMPTION

• nearly, an estimate or figure almost exact

• reasoning for or against something

• something that is accepted as true

• to understand fully

Define CONTROL GROUP

• a statement in opposition to another

• a final decision based on facts, experience, or reasoning

• in agreement, firm, changless

• an experimental group in which conditions are controlled

Define CORRELATION

• a close connection between two ideas or two sets of data

• a finding of fault, disapproval

• most nearly complete or accurate

• a state of being controlled by something else

Define VIEWPOINT

• to change from one state to another

• to expose to some action

• opinion, judgment

• to provide evidence

Define THEORY

• a general rule offered to explain experiences

• the state of being connected

• to copy or reproduce

• one who supports a cause

Define PROPONENT

• an observable fact or event

• a pattern or figure of something to be made

• the act of noting and recording facts and events

• one who supports a cause

Define LEGEND

• a title, description, or key accompanying a figure or map

• a basic fact

• a testable explanation of a question or problem

• a picture that explains

Define FIGURE

• an educated guess

• not in agreement

• a picture that explains

• a statement that makes something clear

Define EXPLANATION

• a test made to find something out

• a statement that makes something clear

• the act of telling the meaning of something, explanation

• to study by close and careful observation

Define IMPLY

• estimating a value of another characteristic beyond the range of a given value of another characteristic

• to make clear by using examples

• to join or unite closely in a single body

• to suggest rather than to say plainly