Scientific Method: Vocabulary Review

Anything that changes in an experiment.

• Variable

• Control

• Problem

• Data

What you compare your results to....

• Variable

• Control

• Problem

• Data

Anything that goes wrong in an experiment

• Variable

• Problem

• Error

• Hypothesis

Always state the problem in this form...

• Question

• Hypothesis

• Problem

• Data

An educated guess

• Variable

• Control

• Hypothesis

• Data

A way you can add on to your experiment

• Extension

• Control

• Problem

• Data

Part of experiment you change on purpose

• Independent Variable

• Control

• Problem

• Data

System of measurement used in science

• Variable

• Control

• Data

• Metric

List of things you'll use in experiment

• Extension

• Control

• Metric

• Materials

Copying someone else's research

• Plagiarism

• Metric

• Problem

• Data