Scientific Method vocab review

What is the act of gathering information about a system or environment using one or more of the five senses?

• observation

• inference

• hypothesis

• variables

What is a predicted solution to a problem?

• observation

• inference

• hypothesis

• variables

What is a conclusion based on prior knowledge or information?

• observation

• inference

• hypothesis

• variables

What are factors that change and can be measured in the experiment?

• observation

• inference

• hypothesis

• variables

What is the variable that you change on purpose?

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• control

• constants

What is the variable that changes as a result of changing the independent variable?

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• control

• constants

What is the standard against which experimental results can be measured?

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• control

• onstants

What are the things that are kept the same in the experiment?

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• control

• constants

What is the type of data gathered using actual measured numbers?

• qualitative data

• quantitative data

• experiment

• conclusion

What is the type of data gathered using the 5 senses?

• qualitative data

• quantitative data

• variables

• control