A proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for an experiment

The study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms.

The investigation and explanation of natural events and includes the new information that results from those investigations.

A set of steps used to investigate a question

Characteristics or properties of a thing or phenomenon that are observed during an experiment using the senses.

Data collected during an experiment that involves numbers

Conclusions or assumptions that you make using observations and past knowledge and experiences.

The process through which information is gathered during an experiment using the senses.

The factor that you want to test in the experiment. It is the variable that is changed in the experiment

The factor that is observed or measured in the experiment

The individuals that receive all the same factors as the experimental group except the independent variable.

The group of individuals in an experiment that experience the independent variable.

The factors in an experiment that are the same for the experimental and control groups.

A scientific investigation that tests how one factor affects another.

The process of subjecting research or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field, before a paper describing this work is published in a journal, conference proceedings or as a book.

A description of how close a measurement is to an accepted or true value.

A description of how similar or close measurements are to each other.

Mark all of the boxes that describe qualities of a scientific law

Mark all of the boxes that describe qualities of a scientific Theory

The amount of space an object takes up

The units used to measure volume (there may be more than one answer)

The base unit used when measuring length

The base unit used when measuring mass

The amount of matter an object contains