| A | B |
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| Experimental Group | The group which has the variable present |
| Observation | Something noticed in the experiment |
| Control Group | The normal organisms used to compare to the test organisms |
| Hypothesis | A reasonable answer or guess to a problem |
| Theory | A hypothesis which has been proven by many scientists and never proven wrong |
| Trial | Doing the experiment once |
| Direct Observation | Something which you can see or measure personally |
| Indirect Observation | You must observe how other things are affected |
| Law | A theory which has been proven repeatedly true over a long time |
| Inference | A conclusion based on observations made about something |
| Scientific Method | A series of steps used to study a problem |
| Experiment | The way a hypothesis is tested |
| Procedure | A way of doing something |
| Science | An organized body of knowledge |
| Subjects | The organisms being tested in the experiment |
| Blind | The subjects don't know how they are being tested |
| Double Blind | Both the experimenter and the subject lack knowledge about the experiment |
| Placebo | A sugar pill or something that would have no affect |
| Independent variable | The condition changed by the experimenter |
| Statistics | A kind of math used to analize experiments |
| Data | The facts collected during an experiment |
| Valid | Some thing which is true |
| Scientific journals | Best source of information about a problem |
| Verify | To determine if something is true |
| Dependent variable | Condition being observed or measured in an experiment |
| Quantitative Research | Characterized by numerical data and measurements |
| Replicate | Perform your work over and get the same results |
