Science and Engineering Practices

Question 1

Scientific Method

Answer 1

The way sientist study and learn about the world

Question 2

Observation

Answer 2

Using your senses to gather information about somthing.

Question 3

Qualitative Obervation

Answer 3

Using your sences to discribe the charateristics of an object-color, texture,taste.

Question 4

Quantitative Obersvation

Answer 4

Using numbers or mesurments to discribe somthing.

Question 5

Infrence

Answer 5

An explnation of an obervation based on prior knowlege

Question 6

Variable

Answer 6

Any factor that can be manipulated, controlled, or measured in a experiment.

Question 7

Control Varibable

Answer 7

What must stay the same in the experiment

Question 8

Manipulated/indpendent Variable

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Dependent/responding variable

Answer 9

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

Question 10

C-E-R

Answer 10

C-claim
E-evidence
R-resoning

Question 11

Claim

Answer 11

Is the answer to the question you are

trying to answer.

Question 12

Evience

Answer 12

Scientific data that supports your claim.

Question 13

Resoning

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Hypothesis

Answer 14

a prodiction based on prior knowlege. Always written in an then statment.

Question 15

conclusion

Answer 15

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