Unit 1 Vocabulary Words (Env. Sci.)

What is a hypothesis?

• An educated guess

• A natural resource

What is an independent variable?

• As a scientist, something I change.

• Someone who helps with the experiment.

• A part of the lab that stays the same.

What is a dependent variable?

• What is measured in an experiment.

• What let's a scientist know that the experiment worked.

What is a constant?

• What stays the same for the entire experiment.

• An educated guess

• A hypothesis

What is a control?

• Part that proves the experiment works

• An educated guess

• a dependent variable