Scientific Inquiry Vocab Quiz

Remark, statement, comment based on some thing you have seen, heard, or noticed using your 5 senses

• hypothesis

• observation

• inference

• inquiry

An educated guess or statement, leading to an experiment

• dependent variable

• evidence

• hypothesis

• inference

Conclusion or prediction based on information that you know

• inference

• theory

• law

• observation

Being very descriptive and detail oriented in your writing and/or speech

• quantitative

• prediction

• qualitative

• elaborated communication

the variable of the experiment that does not depend on anything else

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• constant variable

• control variable

The variable that changes as a result, usually what you are measuring or recording

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• constant variable

• evidence

The variable or aspect that does not change- remains the same

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• constant variable

• inference

Asking for information, questioning, investigating

• reasoning

• claim

• evidence

• inquiry

Facts or information showing the validity of something

• inquiry

• evidence

• reasoning

• prediction

Stating that something is the case, answer to the guiding question

• law

• lab safety

• qualitative

• claim