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10 Cards in this Set
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Control
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The standard against which experimental effects may be checked to establish their validity.
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Controlled Experiment
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A method of testing a hypothesis in which a factor is change and other factors that respond due to this change are observed, all other factors are held constant.
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Dependent Variable
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The factor that varies in response to other changes in the independent variable during a controlled experiment.
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Hypothesis
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A tentative explintion of a phenomenon that guides scientic inquiry.
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Independent Variable
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The factor that is manipulated during a controlled experiment.
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Qualitative Data
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Descriptive results not based on numerical measurements.
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Quantative Data
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Results based on numerical measurements.
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Repeated Trials
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Performing an experiment more than one time to increase the relaibility of the results.
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Scientific laws
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Descriptions of patterns of regularity with respect to natural phenonmena.
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Scientific Method
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A rigorously tested explination of a phenomenon.
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