The Science of Biology Vocabulary Practice

Which best defines science?

• performing an experiment

• an organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world

• making an educated guess

• studying living organisms

The process of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way.

• hypothesis

• inference

• observation

• control group

A logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience

• theory

• law

• inference

• observation

Which best describes a hypothesis?

• A possible explanation for a set of observations or possible answer to a scientific question

• educated guess

• inference

• random assumption

An experiment in which only one variable is changed.

• observation

• controlled experiment

• test trial

• practice

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

A group in an experiment that is exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group except for the independent variable

• experimental group

• control group

• data

• observation

Factor in a controlled experiment that is deliberately changed by the scientist; also called a manipulated variable

• dependent variable

• variable

• control

• independent variable

Factor in a controlled experiment that is deliberately changed by the scientist; also called a manipulated variable

• dependent variable

• variable

• control

• independent variable

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

Variable that is observed and that changes in response to the independent variable; is also called the responding variable

• dependent variable

• independent variable

• control

• experimental group

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

Evidence; information gathered from observations

• inference

• data

• questions

• hypothesis

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-1