Essential Science Vocabulary: 8th Grade

The thing YOU change in the experiment. This variable CAUSES another variable to change

• dependent variable

• independent variable

• constant

• control

The thing that CHANGES in an experiment, but only when something ELSE changes FIRST. This variable shows the EFFECT of another variable.

• dependent variable

• independent variable

• control

• constant

This is information in the form of a NUMBER.

• qualitative data

• quantitative data

• control

• correlation

This information describes something's CHARACTERISTICS, such as size, shape, color, texture, etc.

• qualitative data

• quantitative data

• control

• indicate

Tags

NGSS.2-PS1-1

NGSS.2-PS1-2

An EDUCATED guess about what you think will happen

• data

• control

• correlation

• hypothesis

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

to CONTROL or CHANGE a variable.

• constant

• implication

• manipulate

• observation

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Something in the your experiment which does NOT receive the experimental treatment; this allows you to see what happens to something if you do NOT change the independent variable.

• Constant

• indicate

• Control

• Correlate

Something you do NOT change in your experiment, for both the experimental AND control groups.

• correlate

• control

• constant

• indicate

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

To point out or show.

• introspection

• indicate

• interdiction

• irrelevance

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

A relationship or connection between two or more things that can be expressed using math.

• constant

• valid

• data

• correlation

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NGSS.HS-LS2-2

NGSS.HS-LS2-4

NGSS.HS-PS4-1