Scientific Method Vocabulary

Match the following

• Information gathered through the senses

• Observation

• A guess or opinion made based on an observation

• Law

• Attempts to answer WHY something happens

• Hypothesis

• Educated guess based on research

• Inference

• Observation of WHAT does happen

• Theory

Reorder the following.

• question

• materials

• hypothesis

• procedure

• observations

Match the following

• What is changed

• Dependent Variable

• Why something happens

• Control or Constants

• What is measured or evaluated

• Theory

• stays the same

• Independent Variable

The _______________________ is a series of steps used by scientists to solve a problem or answer a question.

• scientific method

• recipe

• data collection

• metric system

A hypothesis is?

• Information someone noticed

• An educated guess

• Making a guess beforehand

What the person performing the activity sees, hears, smells, or tastes.

• experiment

• observation

• prediction

• guess

The part of an experiment that you, the scientist, changes or controls before the experiment

• Control

• Independent variable

• Dependent variable

The steps taken to find the answer to a problem is called a

• Conclusion

• procedure

• observation

• trials

The factor whose value is the result you are testing is called the ​ (a)  

• dependent variable
• constant
• variable
• data
• trials
• scientific method

The number of times an experiment is conducted are called the ​ (a)  

• trials
• conclusion
• data
• problem
• Procedures
• dependent variable