Unit 1 Vocabulary

The knowledge obtained by observing natural events and conditions in order to discover facts and formulate laws or principles that can be verified or tested

• Science
• Theory
• Government
• Hypothesis

The observations, measurements, and other types of data that people gather and test to support and evaluate scientific explanations

• Observations
• Empirical Evidence
• Experiment
• theory

The testable idea or explanation that leads to scientific investigation

• theory
• law
• hypothesis
• model

A condition or factor that is assumed to have one value, or remain unchanged, throughout a particular investigation

• law
• model
• experiment
• constant

An organized procedure to study something under controlled conditions

• experiment
• theory
• empirical evidence
• observation

A descriptive statement or equation that reliably predicts events under certain conditions

• theory
• science
• law
• hypothesis

The process of obtaining information by using the 5 senses

• observations
• empirical evidence
• constant
• science

In a scientific investigation, the factor that is deliberately manipulated

• dependent variable
• theory
• model
• independent variable

A system of ideas that explains many related observations and is supported by a large body of evidence acquired through scientific investigation

• law
• theory
• model
• science

In a scientific investigation, the factor that changes as a result of manipulation of one or more independent variables

• independent variable
• empirical evidence
• experiment
• dependent variable