Science and engineering practices

Question 1

Sceientific Method

Answer 1

The way scientists study and learn about the world

Question 2

Observation

Answer 2

Using your five senses to gather information about something

Question 3

Qualitstive Observation

Answer 3

Using your senses to describe the characteristics of an object-color, texture, tast

Question 4

Quantitative Observation

Answer 4

Using numbers or measurements to describe something

Question 5

Inference

Answer 5

An explanation of an obervation based on prior knowledge

Question 6

Hypothesis

Answer 6

A prediction based on prior knowledge. Always written in a if then statement

Question 7

Varibale

Answer 7

Any factor that can be manipulated, controlled for, or measured in an experiment

Question 8

Control veriable

Answer 8

What must stay the same in the experiment

Question 9

Manipulated/Independent Variable

Answer 9

The thing that you are testing or changing in an experiment and it is graphed on the X-axis

Question 10

Dependent/Responding variable

Answer 10

What you are measuring or observing in an experiment and it is graphed on the Y-axis

Question 11

C-E-R

Answer 11

Caim-Evidence-Reasoning

Question 12

Claim

Answer 12

The anwser to the question you are trying to anwser

Question 13

Evidence

Answer 13

Scientific data thst supports your claim

Question 14

Reasoning

Answer 14

THe how or why the evidence supports our claim; scientific rule

Question 15

Conclusion

Answer 15

A written summary of an experiment that uses evidence to prove what you have learned