Vocabulary terms

Question 1

The answer to the question you are trying to answer.

Answer 1

Claim

Question 2

What must stay the same is an experiment

Answer 2

Control Variable

Question 3

And factor that can be manipulated, controlled, or measured in an experiment.

Answer 3

Variable

Question 4

The how or why the scientific evidence supports our claim

Answer 4

Reasoning

Question 5

Use numbers or measurements to describe something.

Answer 5

Quantitative Observation

Question 6

C-E-R

Answer 6

Claim-Evidence-Reasoning

Question 7

Scientific data that supports your claim.

Answer 7

Evidence

Question 8

The way scientist learn about the world.

Answer 8

Scientific Method

Question 9

The sense should we not use because it it unsafe.

Answer 9

Taste

Question 10

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

Answer 10

conclusion

Question 11

An explanation of an observation based on prior knowledge

Answer 11

inference

Question 12

Using your senses to describe the characteristics of object, color, taste, texture.

Answer 12

Qualitative Observation

Question 13

A prediction based on prior knowledge.

Answer 13

Hypothesis

Question 14

What you are measuring or observing in an experiment graphed on the y-axis

Answer 14

Dependent/Responding Variable

Question 15

What you are measuring or observing in an experiment graphed on the x-axis

Answer 15

Independent/Manipulated Variable