Science Chapter 1 Vocabulary

To put things into groups based on similar traits.

• compare

• classify

• scientific method

• procedure

The steps scientists take to perform investigations

• hypothesis

• experiment

• scientific method

• procedure

To share information with others

• opinion

• compare

• conclusion

• communicate

An investigation in which all of the conditions are controlled; used to test a hypothesis

• experiment

• variable

• science

• procedure

Finding ways that objects are alike and different

• opinion

• classify

• compare

• observe

A statement that can be tested

• opinion

• hypothesis

• investigation

• evidence

An idea backed up by evidence

• opinion

• hypothesis

• investigation

• conclusion

Any condition in an experiment that can be changed.

• variable

• control

• observe

• science

The setup to which everything else will be compared to; does not change

• variable

• control

• observe

• science

Information collected during a scientific investigation.

• science

• opinion

• evidence

• conclusion