A statement that describes what scientists expect to happen every time under a particular set of conditions.

• scientific law
• scientific inquiry
• hypothesis
• metric system

A well-tested explanation for a wide range of observations or experimental results.

• inquiry
• hypothesis
• scientific theory
• meter

the process of making an interpretation based on an observation and prior knowledge

• controlled variable
• metric system
• data table
• inferring

a possible explanation for a set of observations or answer to a scientific question

• inference
• hypothesis
• data table
• metric system

the ongoing process of discovery in science of developing a hypothesis and designing an experiment.

• hypothesis
• scientific inquiry
• inferring
• controlled variable

a factor or condition that stays the same in an experiment

• manipulated variable
• estimate
• controlled variable
• median

a measure of how long something is

• mass
• length
• volume
• estimate

the independent variable that changes in the experiment

• mass
• controlled variable
• independent variable
• manipulated variable

the amount of matter in an object

• length
• volume
• estimate
• mass

the middle number in a list of numbers

• median
• data table
• metric system
• mode