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13 Cards in this Set
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What is a hypothesis?
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An educated guess predicting the outcome of the experiment.
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What is problem?
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What is going to be investigated. Stated in form of a question.
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What is an abstract
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A short summary of the project.
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What is conclusion?
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A written summary of findings.
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What are controls?
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Conditions which do not change during experiment.
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What is observation?
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Use of the senses to learn about objects and events.
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What are inferences?
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Use of logical reasoning to explain events and draw conclusions based on observations.
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What are data and results?
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Observation of everything that happens during the experiment using metric measurement, tables, graphs, and pictures.
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What is purpose?
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A statement about what will be discovered during the experiment.
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What are procedures?
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Step by step instructions describing the entire experiment.
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What are materials?
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A complete list of everything used during the experiment.
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What are independent variables?
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Variables that cause changes.
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What are dependent variables?
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Variables that may or may not be changed as a result of the experiment.
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