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| hypothesis | an educated guess. |
| theory | a synthesis of a large body of information that encompasses well-tested & verified hypotheses about aspects of the world. |
| scientific method | procedure for answering questions about the world by testing educated guesses & formulating general rules. |
| variable | a factor that is subject to change or represent something in an experiment. |
| constant | what remains unchanged under specified conditins. |
| control | a standard of comparison in scientific experimentation. |
| independent variable | the variable which an experimenter deliberately manipulates in order to observe its relationship with some other quantity. |
| dependent variable | the event studied and expected to change when the independent variable is changed. |
| Science | the study of nature's rules. |
| When hypotheses are tested over and over and not contradicted they become | laws or principles. |
