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What are the steps of the scientific method? |
1. Question 2. Research 3. Hypothesis 4. Procedure/Method 5. Data 6. Observation 7. Conclusion |
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What is 'Question'? |
What does the scientist want to learn more about? |
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What is 'Research'? |
Gathering of Information |
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What is 'Hypothesis'? |
-An 'educated' guess of an answer to the question - A tentative explanation -can be tested by further investigation |
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What is 'Procedure/Method'? |
Written and carefully followed step-by-step experiment designed to test the hypothesis |
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What is 'Data'? |
Information collected during the experiment |
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What is 'Observation'? |
Written description of what was noticed during the experiment |
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What is 'Conclusion'? |
-Was the hypothesis correct or incorrect? |
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Independent Variables |
-the variable the experimenter manipulates |
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Control Variables |
-the variables which are not under investigation but may have an impact on the outcome if nor taken into account -variables that are not changed |
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Dependent Variables |
-variables that appear to be directly impacted by the independent variable |
