Science Vocabulary Words

more than enough; plentiful

• Abundant

• Matter

• Hypothesis

• Procedures

All the factors in an experiment that do NOT change.

• Independent Variable (IV)

• Dependent Variable (DV)

• Constants

• Control

The factor (variable) in an experiment that you measure.

• Independent Variable (IV)

• Dependent Variable (DV)

• Constants

• Control

The one factor (variable) in an experiment that you intentionally change.

• Independent Variable (IV)

• Dependent Variable (DV)

• Constants

• Control

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

A scientific prediction about a problem that can be tested.

• Observation

• Hypothesis

• Manipulate

• Inference

An explanation of why something has happened.

• Observation

• Valid

• Inference

• Hypothesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

To change something.

• Valid

• Model

• Procedures

• Manipulate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

Anything that has mass, and takes up space.

• Mass

• Volume

• Matter

• Valid

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

the amount of matter in an object.

• Mass

• Matter

• Volume

• Model

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

A representation created to understand something that is too big, too small, or too complicated to understand.

• Mass

• Matter

• Model

• Abundant

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3