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| Science is a organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world. |
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| Observation is the process of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way. |
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| Inference is a logical interpetation based on prior knowledge and experience. |
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| Hypothesis is a possible explanation for a set of observations or possible short answer to q scientific question. |
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| Controlled experiment is a experiment in which only one variable is changed. |
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| Independent Variable is the factor in the controlled experiment that is deliberately changed;also called manipulated variable. |
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| Dependent Variable is the variable that is observed and that changes in the response to the independent variable;also called the responding variable. |
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| Control Group is the group tat is exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group except one ependent variable. |
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| Data is the evidence;information gathered drom observations. |
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