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| Scientific method | a way of thinking about nature involving the use of certain skills to solve problems in an orderly manner |
| Purpose | rationale for doing the experiment |
| Hypothesis | a possible answer to a question based on gathered information |
| Observation | any information that we gather by using our senses |
| Experiment | an activity designed to test a hypothesis |
| Data | information collected from observation and experiment |
| Control | the part of an experiment that serves as a standard to which variables are compared |
| Variable | any factor in an experiment that could affect the results of an experiment |
| Dependent variable | results from a change in the independent variable |
| Independent variable | the part of the experiment that can be controlled |
