Nature of Science Vocabulary Quiz

the action of trying to learn about something that is completely unknown

• inference

• observe

• exploration

• hypothesis

a conclusion reached based on observations, evidence, and/or reasoning

• opinion

• observation

• prediction

• inference

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NGSS.4-ESS1-1

NGSS.4-ESS2-1

not necessarily based on fact or knowledge; a feeling or thought

• opinion

• detail

• evidence

• data

arranging things into particular categories

• grouping

• gathering

• classifying

• zoning

to find a specific physical property of an object using certain tools, units, and scales

• guessing

• measurement

• estimate

• hypothesis

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NGSS.5-PS1-3

to share information with others; can use articles, social media, projects

• withhold

• communicate

• give away

• model

notice something that may be significant in your experiment

• witness

• see

• observe

• communicate

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NGSS.5-PS1-3

to say or estimate that a specified thing will happen in the future; we do this with weather such as hurricanes and tornadoes

• estimate

• predict

• guess

• analyze

information collected through observations of an experiment; can be numbers or words; evidence of what you did in the experiment

• data

• information

• calculations

• conclusion

a question that can be answered by designing and conducting an experiment

• science question

• testable question

• impossible question

• weird question

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NGSS.3-5-ETS1-3