Scientific Method Flashcards

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Question

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What do you want to find out?

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Hypothesis

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What do you think will happen?

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Experiment

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What you do to figure something out

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Results

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What is your data?

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Analysis

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What does your data mean?

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Conclusion

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What are your final thoughts? What can you do with that information?

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Variable

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Something that changes in an experiment

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Independent Variable

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The variable YOU are changing/experimenting with

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Dependent Variable

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The variable that you measure.

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Control Group

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The “normal”/baseline group. You are NOT experimenting on them.