Scientific Inquiry Vocab

What do we call the act of doing an experiment or test?

• Criteria

• Trial

• Science

• Constraint

What do we call the limitations or restrictions of our questions or experiments?

• Trial

• Criteria

• Science

• Constraint

What do we call using your senses to gather information?

• Hypothesis

• Inference

• Observation

• Science

What do we call the process of investigating and exploring nature to learn new information?

• Science

• Hypothesis

• Inference

• Constraint

What do we call a logical explanation of observations that are drawn from our own prior knowledge and experiences?

• Inference

• Criteria

• Observation

• Hypothesis

What do we call the standards by which we will judge a successful solution?

• Inference

• Constraint

• Observation

• Criteria

What do we call an educated guess to predict what will happen in an experiment, usually phrased as "If... then..."

• Inference

• Science

• Hypothesis

• Observation

What do we call information that we gather from experiments?

• Data

• Observation

• Inference

• Science

"The counter top is black" Is this an:

• Observation

• Inference

"I just heard her stomach growl. She must be hungry" Is this an:

• Observation

• Inference