Scientific Method Vocab

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Act of testing in any manner

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trial

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Part of the experiment treated like the experiment, not changed by the independent variable. Used for comparison.

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Control

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Things kept the same in an experiment.

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Constant

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Responding Variable AKA

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DV

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An educated guess about a problem

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Hypothesis

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Manipulated Variable AKA

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IV

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Interpretation of facts or prior knowledge.

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Inference

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Info collected during an experiment is called

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Data

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Info from measurements: length, mass, volume, temp.

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Quantitative observation

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Data collected due to changes in the independent variable.

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Dependent Variable (DV)