Scientific MethodVocabulary Review
The steps scientists take to create, test,and prove a hypothesis
The act of noting and recording anythingdetected with an instrument or senses
Something that can be expressed in numbersEx: time, temperature, mass, distance,volume
Something that includes a description
Ex: sight, sound, smell, color, hard, soft
An expectations of what will be observedor what will happen
A tentative explanation for an observationthat can be tested by further investigation
a logical conclusion drawn from theavailable evidence and prior knowledge
an organized procedure used to prove ahypothesis
any factor that can change in anexperiment
all of the factors that stay in same in anexperiment
the factor that I change in theexperiment
the factor that you measure to gatherresults in the experiment
the group that stays the same in theexperiment; never changes. Is the “normal”
the group that you change in theexperiment
