Science Vocabulary

To use your senses to gather information about an object or event.

• Evidence

• Observe

• Infer

• Hypothesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

To use what you know (background knowledge) and what you observe to draw a conclusion.

• Infer

• Evidence

• Observe

• Hypothesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

_______ is information that comes from analyzing or finding patterns in observations and data.

• Hypothesis

• Observe

• Infer

• Evidence

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

In an _______, a scientist asks a question, plans a procedure to observe, and collect data, and forms a conclusion.

• Hypothesis

• Variable

• Experiment

• Investigation

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

_____ is a fair test, or a process in which scientists control variables to test a hypothesis.

• Variable

• Experiment

• Hypothesis

• Model

A factor that can change or be controlled in an experiment, investigation, or model.

• Evidence

• Experiment

• Hypothesis

• Variable

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

A statement giving a possible answer to a question that can be tested by an experiment.

• Inference

• Variable

• Hypothesis

• Observation

External means...

• Inside

• Outside

Tags

NGSS.4-LS1-1

Internal means...

• Inside

• Outside

Scientifically speaking, a structure describes a part that makes something bigger.

• True

• False