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| investigation | a specific way to find an answer to a question of find information |
| experiment | a procedure used to test and show how something will react under certain conditions |
| observation | the aact of observing things using our senses; seeing, smelling, taste, touch, and hearing |
| prediction | a guess about the future that is based on what we know in the present |
| inference | an educated guess about how or why something occurs |
| fair test | a planned and ran experiment that is now swayed or altered to adust the outcome |
| hypothesis | an educated guess that will answer the outcome of the experiment |
| independent variable | somethig you control or change during an experiment |
| dependent variable | something that may or nay not be affected by your control or change of your independent variable |
| constant | something that remains the same in an experiment or that does not change |
| conclusion | a statment that restates the hypothesis and verifies whether or not the prediction was correct or incorrect |
| data | peices of information |
| trial | repeated experiements |
| entomologist | scientist who studies insects |
| beaker | glass container used to measure or contain liquids |
| thermometer | measure temeprature |
| microscope | allows us to view something smalle than visible with the naked eye |
| magnifiying glass | used to enlarge items |
| scale/balance | used to measure or compare mass or weight of an item |
| stethoscope | used to listen to internal activity of the body |
| telescope | used to view items away from earth |
| theory | belief, thought, idea or method based on observations, facts, and test results |
| model | visual representation of facts, data, and test results to use to assist in the learning |
| geocentric model | model of universe in which everything rotates around the Earth |
