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| Accuracy | Correct; free from error; true. |
| Bias | Prejudice towards a certain idea. |
| Classification | Sorting and grouping; arraging into similar and dissimilar groups. |
| Conclusion | Used to evaluate the data and experiment as it relates to the hypothesis. (An opinion about what happen based on the data.) |
| Control (Group) | A COMPARISON used in an experiment to see if the results obtained would have been the same without the Independent Variable. |
| Controlled (Fixed) Variables | All the things that must stay the same between the main experiment and the control. |
| Data | Information obtained during research or an experiment. |
| Dependent Variable | In an experiment it is the thing you are indirectly trying to change. For example, the disease you are trying to cure with a new medicine. |
| Experimentation | The part of science that seeks knowldege through performing an experiment. |
| Independent Variable | In an experiment it is the thing you are using to indirectly change something else. For example, the medicine you are using to try to cure a disease with. |
| Hypothesis | In an experiment, a statement of what could be true. |
| Law | In science, the closest you can get to something that is always correct. Something that is almost always true. |
| Materials | A list of the specific things needed to do an experiment. |
| Metric | Includes grams, liters, and centimeters... Does not include inches or pounds. |
| SI | The modern metric system. "System International" |
| Observation | The first step of scientific inquiry. It is what starts you thinking about some scientific problem or question. |
| Peer Review | How scientists "police" what gets said or written by other scientists. Scientists check each others work. |
| Phenomena | A fancy word meaning a "thing that happens". |
| Precise | Exactness. 1.01 cm is more so than 1 cm, though both are accurate. |
| Procedure | The steps followed to perform an experiment. |
| Qualitative Data | The pennies were BROWN in color. |
| Quantitative Data | There are FIVE pennies. |
| Repeatability | The idea that an experiment should be able to be repeated in the same way and will have basically yield the same results. |
| The Scientific Method | A system for conducting an experiment, intended to minimize errors and bias. Like the rules of gameplay for science. |
| Subjective | Letting one's thoughts or feelings affect what is observed and concluded. |
| Objective | NOT letting one's thoughts or feelings affect what is observed and concluded. |
| Summary | Summarizing all the facts and data without opinion or conclusion. Just the facts. |
| Technology | Using scientific ideas to actually do something practical. |
| Theory | Facts logically and objectively organized into an explanation. In science, this should lead to ideas for experimentation; embellishment should be avoided. |
| Theorization | The part of science involved with speculation based on logical and objective interpretation of facts or observable phenomena that may or may not be readily tested. |
