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| Scientific Method | The process used to answer questions and solve problems |
| hypothesis | an educated guess based on research |
| independent variable | What you are testing. (ex. types of fertilizer) Test only one a t a time. Can be changed |
| dependent variable | What you measure (ex. plant height) Can have more than one |
| controlled variable | What you keep the same (amt. of sunlight, water, soil type, pot type) |
| control | A test done without the independent variable (ex. plants given no fertilizer) |
| constant | Things that stay the same in an experiment (pot that the plant growns in, amt. of sunlight that a plant gets) |
| qualitative | Relating to the quality of something |
| quantitative | Represented in numbers |
| data | recorded measurements (charts, tables, numbers) |
| analyze | figure out what something means |
| fact | A measureable condition whose results are always the same |
| infer | To believe that something is there without seeing it |
| theory | something proven over and over through experiments |
| law | Always occurs the same way in nature |
| precision | Hitting the same spot/point at all times |
| accuracy | Hitting the DESIRED spot/point at all times |
| scientific notation | A way of writing numbers using powers of 10. Used for writing very big or very small numbers. |
