10th Grade TAKS Science Vocab: Objective 1
"The student will demonstrate an understanding of the nature of science."
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- Control Group
- The part of the experiment in which all conditions are kept constant
- Trend
- Description of the behavior of a variable or the relationship between two variables
- accuracy
- how close a measurement is to the actual value
- Prediction
- An inference about future events based on current evidence, past experience or knowledge
- Hypothesis
- Testable explanation of a question or problem
- Experimental group
- In an experiment the group whose conditions are being changed
- Responding Variable
- Factor in an experiment that the scientist wants to observe, which may change as a result of other variables being changed
- precision
- how close measurements are to one another
- theory
- explanation of a set of observations about the natural world
- Conclusion
- A final statement summing up the results of an experiment, it should refer to the hypothesis
- Quantitative data
- Observations from an experiment containing numerical measurements
- Inference
- The interpretation of an observation based on prior knowledge
- Scientific method
- common procedures used by scientists to gather information used in problem solving and experimentation
- Manipulated Variable
- Factor in an experiment the scientist purposely changes
- Qualitative data
- Descriptions from observations that do not contain numbers