Science State Testing Vocab

The factor in an experiment that will be changed. 

• dependent variable
• independent variable
• controlled variable
• inferences 

Using your five senses to describe something.

• observation

• prediction
• experiment
• conclusion

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

The summary at the end of an experiment that explains the results, and refers to the hypothesis using data. 

• conclusion
• procedures
• materials
• responding variable

The factor in an experiment that is kept the same throughout (not changed).

• dependent variable

• control variable

• data
• independent variable

A series of steps that describe how to perform an experiment. 

• scientific method
• recipe
• data collection
• metric system

The test of a hypothesis is called a

• control
• dependent variable
• conclusion
• experiment

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

The information or the results that you get from your experiment (you organize it into charts and graphs).

• observations
  conclusion
• data
• variables
• hypothesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

What is a hypothesis?

• A prediction or "educated guess" of what will happen in your experiment

• An untestable statement
• Whatever the teacher tells you is the truth
• An experiment

A hypothesis is simply a prediction that has not yet been _.

• proven or disproven
• made into a theory
• results calculated
• written about

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-1

The variable that gets measured or observed in an experiment.

• independent variable
• dependent variable
• control variable

• data group

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1