Nature of Science-- Vocabulary

Factors that can change the results of an experiment.

• variable

• hypothesis

• control

• constant

Application of science to help people

• scientific law

• technology

• scientific method

• experiment

Explanation of things or events based on knowledge gained from observation and investigation.

• scientific law

• scientific method

• theory

• experiment

International System of Units--universally accepted version of the metric system that is based on multiples of 10.

• SI

• model

• constant

• mass

Organized set of investigation procedures

• dependent variable

• volume

• scientific method

• graph

Statement about what happens in nature that seems to be true all time; does not explain why or how something happens

• scientific law

• scientific theory

• experiment

• hypothesis

Space occupied by an object.

• mass

• density

• volume

• bias

Used to represent on idea, object, or event that is too big, too small, too complex, or too dangerous to observe or test directly,

• model

• control

• bias

• constant

Amount of matter in an object.

• volume

• density

• model

• mass

Affects the measure of another variable

• variable

• independent variable

• hypothesis

• constant