Life Science Vocabulary

The factor in an experiment that will be changed. 

• dependent variable
• independent variable
• controlled variable
• inferences 

You use your five senses to describe something

• observation
• prediction
• experiment
• conclusion

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

The summary at the end of an experiment that explains the results, and referrers to the hypothesis using data. 

• conclusion
• procedures
• materials
• responding variable

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

This part of the experiment serves as a basis of comparison; the one variable being tested has been omitted. (not changed)

• experimental group
• control group
• data
• variables

A series of steps used by scientists to solve a problem or answer a question. 

• scientific method
• recipe
• data collection
• metric system

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Things that stay the same throughout the whole experiment are called

• controls
• conclusions
• independent variables
• constants

The name of the information that you get from your experiment (you organize it into charts and graphs).

• observations
  conclusion
• data
• variables
• hypothesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

What is a hypothesis?

• Your best "educated guess" of what the answer to your question will be
• An untestable statement
• Whatever the teacher tells you is the truth
• An experiment

A possible explanation to a problem or question that has not yet been tested. 

• data
• theory
• hypothesis
• fact

The factors in an experiment that can be changed. 

• variables
• quantitative data
• hypothesis
• steps