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| A way of learning about the natural world. |
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| Using one or more of your senses to gather information. |
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| Explaining or interpreting the things you observe. |
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| Making a statment or a claim about what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence. |
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| The grouping together of items that are alike in some way. |
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| Comparing observations and data to reach a conclusion about them. |
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| Creating representations of complex objects or processes. |
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| The factors that change in an experiment. |
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| A factor that is changed to test a hypothesis. |
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| A factor that changes in response to the independent variable. |
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| Having an attitude of doubt. |
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| The rules that enable people to know right from wrong. |
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| A person's likes or dislikes. |
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| The culture in which a person grows up in. |
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| A mistake in the design of an experiment that makes a particular result more likely. |
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| Make decisions and draw conclusions based on available evidence. |
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| Personal feelings have entered into decision or conclusion. |
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| Explaining things by starting with a general idea and then applying the idea to a specific observation. |
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| Using specific observations to make generalizations. |
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| A measurement system based on the number 10. |
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| International System of Units |
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| A version of the metric system used by modern scientists. |
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| The amount of matter in an object. |
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| The force of gravity acting on an object. |
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| The amount of space an object or substance takes up. |
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| A curve that is read to find the volume of a liquid. |
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| How much mass is contained in a given volume. |
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| How close a measurment is to the true or accepted value. |
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| How close a group of measurments are to each other. |
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| Communicate how precise measurements are. |
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| Calculations used to determine how accurate an experimental value is. |
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| The numerical average of a set of data. |
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| The middle number in a set of data. |
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| The number that appears most often in a list of numbers. |
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| The difference between the greatest value and the least value in the set. |
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| Data that does not fit with the rest of a data set. |
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| A line graph in which the data points yield a straight line. |
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| The kind of graph in which the data points do not fall on a straight line. |
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| A process started by thinking and questioning. |
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| A possible answer to a scientific question. |
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| An experiment in which only one variable is manipulated at a time. |
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| The facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through qualitative and quantitative observations. |
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| A repetition of an experiment. |
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| Another scientist repeats your experiment. |
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| How something works or why something happens. |
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| The data and observations that have been collected through scientific processes. |
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| An idea that may be formed from evidence but has not been confirmed by evidence. |
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| A public disagreement between groups. |
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| A well-tested explanation for a wide range of observations or experimental results. |
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| A statement that describes what scientists expect to happen every time under a particular set of conditions. |
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| Any repesentation of an object or process. |
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| A group of parts that work together to perform a function or produce a result. |
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| The material or energy that goes into a system. |
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| What happens in a system. |
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| The material or energy that comes out of a system. |
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| Output that changes the system in some way. |
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