Nature of science vocabulary

You use your five senses to describe something

• hypothesis

• observation

• inference

• experiment

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Steps that scientists use to investigate questions about the natural world.

• Scientific method

• Engineering cycle

• data collection

• recipe

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A conclusion you make based on evidence and reasoning

• observation

• variable

• inference

• hypothesis

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What is a hypothesis?

• A statement that we can't test

• An experiment

• Something made up

• Your best educated guess of what the answer to your question will be

What do we call the part of an experiment that changes?

• constants

• variables

• hypothesis

• steps

What is qualitative data?

• Data that measures things in numbers

• Any data we take

• Data that measures types of variables, like color or shape

• Quality data

Data that measures numbers is called

• Quantitative data

• Qualitative data

• Absolute data

• Hypothesis

A variable that is being measured or changed in an experiment is called

• Variable

• Independent variable

• Dependent variable

• Control

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When we change a variable in an experiment that is called the...

• variable

• Independent variable

• dependent variable

• control

The thing that doesn't change in an experiment is called the...

• variable

• Independent variable

• dependent variable

• control