Unit 1 Vocab

Science

• A way of learning about the nature world through observations and logical reasoning.

• The process of using your senses to gather information.

• Facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through observations.

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Controlled experiment

• A way of learning about the nature world through observations and logical reasoning.

• A scientific test done under controlled conditions, meaning that just one factor is changed at a time, while all others are kept constant.

• Facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through observations.

Bias

• Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

• An attitude of doubt.

• a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

Skepticism

• Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

• An attitude of doubt.

• a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

Opinion

• Prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

• An attitude of doubt.

• a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

Repeated trials

• Proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.

• Performing the experiment at least 3 times to make sure the data is the same.

  An attitude of doubt.

• The ongoing process of discovery of in science using various techniques.

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Scientific inquiry

• Proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.

• Performing the experiment at least 3 times to make sure the data is the same.

  An attitude of doubt.

• The ongoing process of discovery of in science using various techniques.

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Hypothesis

• Proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.

• Performing the experiment at least 3 times to make sure the data is the same.

  An attitude of doubt.

• The ongoing process of discovery of in science using various techniques.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Evidence

• Proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.

• Performing the experiment at least 3 times to make sure the data is the same.

  An attitude of doubt.

• The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

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Independent Variable

• The manipulated variable.

  The one factor that the scientist changes during an experiment.

• The responding variable.

  The factor that changes as a result of changes to the independent variable of the experiment.

• Not a variable.

  Everything else in the experiment that stays the SAME (hence, not a variable).

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2