Vocabulary Unit 1

information collected during an investigation

• Hypothesis

• Data

• Variable

• Constant

a set of steps scientists use to investigate a question

• Scientific method

• Investigation

• Data

• Constant

a feature or quality that an object has

• Hypothesis

• Matter

• Physical property

• Characteristic

the thing you change in each experiment

• Variable

• Constant

• Hypothesis

• Characteristic

using the senses and tools to gather data about something

• Investigation

• Hypothesis

• Observation

• Scientific method

a way to discover the answer to a question or problem

• Investigation

• Scientific method

• Hypothesis

• Variable

the things that stay the same in each experiment

• Data

• Hypothesis

• Constant

• Characteristic

anything that takes up space or has weight

• Data

• Matter

• Variable

• Physical property

any characteristic used to describe matter

• Matter

• Hypothesis

• Physical property

• Constant

a prediction of what the answer to a question is; still needs to be tested

• Observation

• Investigation

• Hypothesis

• Data