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Biology
9th Grade
09/06/2013

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Term
Science
Definition
An organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world.
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Observation
Definition
Is the act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way.
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Inference
Definition
Is a logical interpretation based on what scientists already know.
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Hypothesis
Definition
Is a scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it.
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Controlled Expierment
Definition
Is a hypothesis that is tested by an Expierment in which only one variable is changed.
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Independent Variable
Definition
A variable that is deliberately changed.
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Dependent Variable
Definition
A variable that is observed and changes in response to the independent variable.
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Control Group
Definition
A group exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group except one independent variable.
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Data
Definition
A detailed record of expiremental observations and gathered information.
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