The Scientific Method 2
Terms
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- Science
- A way of understanding the world around us
- scientist
- one who studies the world around us
- Scientific Method
- Steps that scientists follow (not necessarily in the same order) to learn more about the world around them
- Observation
- Using your senses (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching) to learn about an object or an event
- Classify
- Place or group things together that share similar properties
- Measure
- Find the size, distance, time, volume, area, mass, weight, or temperature of an object or event
- Hypothesis
- An 'educated' guess of an answer to the question
- Research
- Gathering of information
- Question
- What the scientist wants to learn more about
- Data
- Information collectd during the experiment
- Observations
- Written descriptions of what was noticed during the experiment
- Conclusion
- The stage that determines if the hypothesis was correct or incorrect;determine if the hypothesis is valid
- Experiment
- A scientific Test
- Variable
- One of the changes in a situation that may affect the outcome of an experiment