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what is experimenting

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scientfically testing your hypothesis or prediction

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what is observing

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observing is using your senses (smell, touch, taste, sight and hearing) to find out info abt an object or an event

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what is generalising

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generalising is writing a statement that seems to be true after making many observations

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what is recording

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writing down data that you have collected from an experiment

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what is predicting

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predicting is making a forecast of something that might happen in the future after making a few observations

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what are variables

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variables are factors in an experiment

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what are the four steps of an experiment

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  1. planning an experiment
  2. con7ducting an experiment
  3. processing the data
  4. evualting the experiment
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what is an inference

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a conclusion based of evidence and reasoning

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what is an observation

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the process of observing or montoring something or someone

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what is a prediction

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a forecast based of something in the future

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what is a hypothesis

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what you think is going to happen based off of what you already know in a experiemnt

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what is a dependent variable

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the variable that you meausre in an experiment

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what is an independent variable

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the variable that you change in a experiment

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what is an independent variable

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the variable that you change in a experiment

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what is a controlled variable

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the variables that keep the same throughout the experiment

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what does interpolating mean (graph)

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when your prediction is based IN the graph

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what is extrapolating mean (graph)

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when your prediction isn’t necessiarly IN the graph but it seems true in most cases