Unit 1 L 1 Flashcards

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Observation

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What’s the process of gathering information about events or processes in a careful orderly way

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Inference

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Is the logical interpretation based on prior knowledge or experience

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Hypothesis

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Is a post scientific explanation for a set of observations

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Experiment

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A way of testing a hypothesis

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5
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Independent variable

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The variable that is deliberately changed

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Dependent variable

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The variable that is observed and that changes in response to the Independent variable

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