Unit 1 Nature of Science Vocabulary

objects or ideas that represent other things; they help us to understand objects or ideas that are too small or too big to see with our eyes

• investigation

• model

• experiment

• research

a procedure carried out to carefully observe the natural world that may include making systematic observations, asking questions, gathering information, analyzing data, summarizing results, drawing conclusions, and/or communicating results; to study or test something in order to learn more about it,

• model

• investigation

• experiment

• replication

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

a procedure of steps carried out under controlled conditions to test a hypothesis/answer a question

• model

• investigation

• experiment

• research

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

when a scientist (student) conducts the same experiment as another scientist in order to verify their results, when the same results are collected, regardless of who is conducting the experiment

• replication

• repitition

• trials

• accuracy

conducting the exact same experiment over and over and over again

• replication

• repetition

• trials

• accuracy

multiple sets of measurements or observations in a scientific investigation

• replication

• repetition

• trials

• accuracy

the measure of how close the result is to the actual value when taking measurements or recording observations

• repition

• replication

• trials

• accuracy

information/measurements that are collected from an observation, experiment or investigation; scientists analyze and record this information in order to draw conclusions

• evidence

• control group

• variables

• constant

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

the portion of an experiment that you do NOTHING to; it serves as a comparison to the experimental group; it is what you will use to compare to the other lab outcomes

• evidence

• control group

• variable

• constant

any factor in an experiment that can be changed in order to study or test a hypothesis in a scientific experiment.

• evidence

• control group

• variable

• constant

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NGSS.MS-PS2-2