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| Properties which are specific to a given type of interaction |
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| The path followed by an electric current from a power source through devices that use electricity and back to the source |
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A statement of what you
understand or a conclusion that you
have reached from an investigation or
set of investigations. |
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In an experiment, the
variables that are kept constant (not
changed). |
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Goals that must be satisfied
to be able to successfully achieve a
challenge |
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| dependent (responding) variables |
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In an experiment, the variables whose
values are measured. Scientists
measure how these variables
respond to changes they make in a
manipulated variable. |
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The data collected during
investigations and trends in that data. |
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The things that are being
compared are being tested under
the same conditions, and the test
matches the question being asked. |
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| independent (manipulated) variable |
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In an experiment, the variable that the
scientist intentionally changes. |
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A quantity whose value may
change (vary) over the course of an
experiment. |
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| A statement that can be proved or disproved by experimental or observational evidence. |
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| Metals that interact with magnets |
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| An idea about what happens to one variable when a second variable changes |
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| The act or influence of one object on another to cause an effect. |
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| A fair test supported by all the evidence and not by opinion |
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| An average of the data points not including outliers |
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| Any object that displays magnetism causing it to attract iron, cobalt or nickel metals. |
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| Objects which can attract and repel other metal and nonmetal objects. |
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| A quantitiy not achieved due to uncertainty in measurements |
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| any collection of objects that influences each other through interactions |
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