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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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| only one variable is changed; all others should be kept unchanged (controlled) |
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| the variable that is deliberately changed |
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| exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group except for one independent variable |
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| descriptive and involve characteristics |
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| a particular preference or point of view that is personal rather than scientific |
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| questioning ideas and hypotheses |
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| all living organisms expend energy to keep conditions inside their cells within certain limits |
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| the variable that is observed and that changes in response to the independent variable |
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