Scientific Terms Earth Science

Observe:

• Suggest a possible explanation for an observation

• To say what you think will happen

• Most direct way of gaining knowledge and data, use of senses to collect.

• To give meaning to your observation

Evaluate:

• To find the value of your results

• To give meaning to your observation

• Most direct way of gaining knowledge and data, use of senses to collect.

• An explanation with evidence

Infer:

• Things that are changed in an experiment.

• Suggest a possible explanation for an observation.

• A detailed plan or logical steps for how you will conduct your experiment.

• Reasons for why something is true or false.

Hypothesis:

• The results of the experiment confirming or denying the hypothesis.

• To give information about something that makes it easier to understand.

• To be correct without error.

• Proposed explanation that can be tested.

Predict:

• A scientific procedure used to test a hypothesis.

• To say what you think will happen.

• The variable in an experiment that is being changed

• Reasons for why something is true or false.

Variables:

• The variable in an experiment that remains constant and unchanged.

• To study all the parts of something.

• To estimate the size or value of something.

• Things that are changed in an experiment.

Controlled Variable:

• Responds to changes in the experiment, what we measure.

• The variable in an experiment that is being changed

• The variable in an experiment that remains constant and unchanged.

• How close two or more measurements are to each other

Manipulated/Independent Variable:

• The variable in an experiment that is being changed

• Responds to changes in the experiment, what we measure.

• The variable in an experiment that remains constant and unchanged.

• Things that are changed in an experiment.

Responding/Dependent Variable:

• The variable in an experiment that is being changed

• Responds to changes in the experiment, what we measure.

• The variable in an experiment that remains constant and unchanged.

• Things that are changed in an experiment.

Procedure:

• The results of the experiment confirming or denying the hypothesis.

• A detailed plan or logical steps for how you will conduct your experiment.

• To give information about something that makes it easier to understand.

• An explanation with evidence.