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| an organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world |
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| the act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way. |
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| a logical interpretation based on what scientists already know. |
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| a scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it. |
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| an experiment in which only one variable can be changed. |
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| the variable that is deliberately changed |
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| the variable that changes in response to the independent variable |
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| exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group exept for one independent variable |
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| Detailed records of experimental observations; gathering information |
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