Scientific Method Vocabulary Review

It is an organized process used to do research and verify (check) other’s work

• variable

• scientific method

• questions

• independent variable

The variable the you change in an experiment

• dependent variable

• results

• independent variable

• question

The variable that changes as a result of the independent variable

• dependent variable

• results

• conlusion

• control

A prediction that can be tested; an educated guess

• dependent variable

• control

• theory

• hypothesis

Data given expressed in numbers

• results

• qualitative data

• quantitative data

• dependent variable

Data given using your five senses

• independent variable

• qualitative data

• dependent variable

• quantitative data

Conclusions based on your observations

• inferences

• results

• dependent variable

• theory

An explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiments.

• theory

• scientific method

• question

• problem

The standard to which comparisons are made in an experiment (the normal group in an experiment)

• dependent variable

• control group

• hypothesis

• experimental group

The group that is testing the variable in the experiment, and one variable is tested at a time

• experimental group

• data

• control group

• question