Nature of Science Vocabulary

The study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, evolution, distribution, identification and taxonomy.

• Genetics

• Biology

• Science

• Scientific Method

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

A proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for an experiment

• Scientific Method

• Hypothesis

• Science

• Observation

The study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms.

• Science

• Biology

• inference

• Genetics

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The investigation and explanation of natural events and includes the new information that results from those investigations.

• Science

• Biology

• Inference

• Observation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A set of steps used to investigate a question

• Science

• Observation

• Scientific Method

• Hypothesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

Characteristics or properties of a thing or phenomenon that are observed during an experiment using the senses.

• Qualitative Data

• Quantitative Data

• Dependent Variable

• Inference

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Data collected during an experiment that involves numbers

• Qualitative Data

• Quantitative Data

• Inference

• Hypothesis

Conclusions or assumptions that you make using observations and past knowledge and experiences.

• Inference

• Observation

• Hypothesis

• Science

The process through which information is gathered during an experiment using the senses.

• Inference

• Observation

• Hypothesis

• Dependent Variable

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

The factor that you want to test in the experiment. It is the variable that is changed in the experiment

• Dependent Variable

• Independent Variable

• Observation

• Precision