Scientific Method

What is a body of knowledge that explains the natural world?

• science

• language arts

• math

Using the five senses (smelling, touching, tasting, feeling, and seeing) to study something is known as

• inference

• observing

• watching

A procedure designed to test a hypothesis

• experiment

• law

• theory

An educated guess that can be tested

• theory

• law

• hypothesis

_______________ data uses a number or measurement

• qualitative

• quantitative

• observation

______________ data uses description or lists quality

• qualitative

• quantitative

• observing

What you keep the same during an experiment

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• control group

what YOU change in the experiment

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• control group

what you will be measuring or observing during the experiment

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• control group

With enough evidence and after analyzing data, a scientist could then draw a ________________ with the information gathered from the experiments

• hypothesis

• conclusion

• statement