Unit 1 Vocabulary

Information describing color, odor, shape, or some other physical characteristic

• Quantitative data

• Qualitative data

A fake or false science that makes claims based on little or no scientific evidence

• Bias

• Pseduoscience

• False science

A particular preference or point of view that is personal, rather than scientific

• pseudoscience

• preference

• bias

• fact

A question that can be answered by conducting an experiment

• testable question

• inference

• hypothesis

A statement that requires an answer

• bias

• inference

• question

a particular attitude or way of considering a matter

• bias

• point of view

• inference

numerical data

• quantitative data

• qualitative data

the variable that is deliberately changed

• dependent variable

• independent variable

• control variable

the variable that is observed and that changes in response to the independent variable

• independent variable

• control variable

• dependent variable

In an experiment, the standard that is used for comparison

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• control