Scientific Basic Vocabulary

An organized plan used for gathering, organizing, and communicating information

• Scientific Law

• Direct proportion

• Scientific Method

• Hypothesis

A proposed answer to a question or an educated guess

• hypothesis

• scientific method

• inverse proportion

• scientific theory

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

NGSS.HS-PS1-2

A variable that causes a change in another variable

• controlled experiment

• responding variable

• manipulated variable

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

A variable that changes in response to a change in the manipulated variable.

• Manipulated Variable

• Controlled experiment

• responding variable

• scientific method

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

An experiment in which only one variable, the manipulated variable, is deliberately changed at a time

• Model

• direct proportion

• controlled experiment

• scientific method

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

A well-tested explanation for a set of observations or experimental results

• Scientific law

• Scientific theory

• Scientific Method

• Scientific

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

A relationship between two variables in which their ratio is constant

• direct proportion

• inverse proportion

A relationship in which the product of two variables is a constant when all other variables are held constant

• direct proportion

• inverse proportion

A representation of an object or event

• model

• hypothesis

• scientific method

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

A statement that summarizes a pattern found in nature

• scientific law

• scientific theory

• scientific notation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2