Scientific Method Vocabulary (5th)

Scientific Method

• Different ways that scientists perform investigations and collect reliable data.

• Multiple sets of measurements or observations in a scientific investigation.

• To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelatedness.

• To statement that tells what an investigation showed, based on observations and data.

Observation

• Information about the natural world gathered through the senses and/or scientific instruments.

• A term used to describe the certainty of data or results of an investigation or experiment.

• An explanation based on evidence that is not directly observed.

• A personal belief or judgement that does not need to be backed up with evidence.

Analyze

• To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelatedness.

• A statement that tells what an investigation showed, based on observations and data.

• To state what one thinks will happen under certain conditions based on data or observation.

• A explanation based on evidence that is not directly observed.

Conclusion

• A statement that tells what an investigation showed, based on observations and data.

• Measurements or observations collected and recorded in an experiment or investigation.

• An explication based on evidence that is not directly observed.

• Information collected through scientific investigation.

Experiment

• A scientific test or procedure that is carried out under controlled conditions to answer a specific question.

• To state what one thinks will happen under certain conditions based on data or observation.

• A personal belief or judgment that does not need to be backed up with evidence.

• Very close to actual value.

Investigation

• An organized scientific study of the natural world that may include making systematic observations, asking questions, gathering information, analyzing data, summarizing results, drawing conclusions, and/or communicating results.

• The experimental setup to which you will compare all the other setups.

• Very close to the actual value.

• A term used to describe the certainty of data or results of an investigation or experiment.

Predict

• To state what one thinks will happen under certain conditions based on data or observation.

• Measurements or observations collected and recorded in an experiment or investigation.

• Very close to the actual value.

• Multiple sets of measurements or observations in a scientific investigation.

Testable

• A term used to describe a question that can be answered through an experiment or observation.

• A statement that tells what an investigation showed, based on observations and data.

• To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelatedness.

• Information about the natural world gathered through the senses and/or scientific instruments.