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| Science | learning about the world through observing and reasoning |
| Observing | using one or more of your senses to gather information |
| Inferring | an interpretation based on prior knowledge |
| Predicting | guessing what will happen in the future based on experimentation |
| Scientific Method | the ongoing process of discovery in science |
| Hypothesis | a testable and possible explanation for a set of observations |
| Controlled experiment | an experiment where only one variable is changed |
| variable | the one thing a scientist changes in an experiment |
| Manipulated (Independent) variable | a factor that can be changed in the experiment |
| responding (dependent) variable | the “data” that shows change in an experiment |
| data | Facts, figures, and other evidence gathered through observations |
| Scientific theory | a well-tested concept that explains a wide range of observations |
| Scientific Law | a group of related parts working together |
