Scientific Vocabulary

What is the term for the one change that you make in an experiment?

• Dependent/Responding Variable

• Control

• Independent/Manipulated Variable

• Hypothesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

What is the data or evidence that you are collecting in an experiment called?

• System Input

• Dependent/Responding Variable

• Model

• Claim

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

What are the items in the experiment that are kept the same so that you are able to make comparisons called?

• Control

• Evidence

• System Output

• Hypothesis

What is a prediction that can be tested called?

• Model

• Hypothesis

• Claim

• System Boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

What is a one-sentence statement that answers the investigation questions but does not give any evidence or explanation?

• Evidence

• System Input

• Claim

• Control

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

What term refers to facts, observations, or data?

• Evidence

• System Output

• Model

• Hypothesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What is a collection of objects that interact and/or influence one another called?

• System

• Model

• System Boundary

• Control

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

What is a representation of objects or systems called?

• System Input

• Model

• Hypothesis

• Evidence

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

What are the parts (matter or energy) that enter the system from the outside called?

• System Output

• System Boundary

• System Input

• Control

What are the parts (matter or energy) that leave the system called?

• System Output

• System Input

• Model

• Hypothesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-PS3-5