Science Questioning Terms
List of words commonly used in questions on science tests.
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- Relative
- How something is compared to something else. Where something is compared with something else.
- Affect
- To cause something to change in some way
- Analyze
- To study and make sense of information.
- Influence
- To affect or cause a change.
- Ethical
- Moral, having good values and judgement.
- Trend
- A pattern in data.
- Advantage
- A benefit or plus side to something. Getting something good from a situation.
- Compare
- Tell how things are alike and how they are different. (A Venn Diagram may be used)
- Approximate
- About. Almost. To give an estimate.
- Infer
- To make a guess based evidence or something that has been observed.
- State
- The condition something is in. The way something is (implies it could change).
- Evalute
- To determine how good or worthy something is. It give a score or rating to something based on how it works.
- Modify
- To make changes to an original.
- Economic
- Dealing with money for financial concerns.
- Conclude
- To give a final statement, based on the evidence you know and what you learned
- Benefit
- An advantage. Getting something good from a situation.
- Predict
- To make a guess based on what has happened in the past.
- Disadvantage
- The down side of something. Something bad that comes out of a situation.
- Convert
- To switch, to change, to transform, to make into something else.
- Factor
- Something that could affect something else. Something that could be changed.
- Transmission
- To pass something along. When something is moves or one place to another.
- Describe
- To give details that help to show how something is or how it works.
- Trace
- To tell the pathway something takes from start to finish.
- Constraint
- A limitation. Something that holds something else back.
- Generate
- To come up with (usually a list of things). To make (often happens in brainstorming).
- Hypothesize
- To make a guess you can test.
- Evidence
- Supporting details or proof.
- Identify
- To tell what something is. To match things up.
- Interpret
- To make meaning from something. To figure out what something means.
- Resource
- Something that is needed or used.
- Condition
- A situation. A circumstance or environment something is in.
- Explain
- To tell why something is the way it is.
- Table
- Boxes of rows and columns that show data.
- Risk
- The chance you take that something bad might happen
- Draw conclusions
- To put together what you know with given or learned information and make sense of it.
- Probable
- Likely.
- Validity
- How good, correct, or honest something is.
- Graph
- A picture that shows math patterns. A diagram of number data.
- Likelihood
- The chance of something. The probability of something happening.
- Support
- To back up your information. To give proof or evidence to a claim.