Practice of Science vocabulary

to study carefully to understand the nature; to examine something to find out what it is or what makes it work

• analyze

• conclusion

• experiment

• inference

collecting data on different organisms, objects, features, events, or collecting data under different conditions

• experimental investigation

• systematic observation

• observational investigation

• comparative investigation

to summarize and explain what happened in your experiment

• hypothesis

• question

• data

• conclusion

a group separated from the rest of the experiment, so the independent variable being tested can't influence the results

• variable

• theory

• trial

• control

information collected using specific methods for a specific purpose of studying or analyzing

• question

• data

• variable

• trial

information acquired by observation or experimentation

• empirical evidence

• trials

• scientific law

• scientific theory

use the scientific method to study, learn, and come up with an answer

• investigative trial

• systematic observation

• comparative observation

• experimental investigation

an idea or explanation that you then test through study and experimentation

• theory

• variable

• question

• hypothesis

a conclusion or opinion reached based on known facts (background knowledge)

• law

• theory

• inference

• observation

using measurable observations to formulate, test or modify a hypothesis.

• interstate

• inference

• investigation

• interview