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OBSERVATION
an act or instance of viewing or noting a fact or occurrence for some scientific or other special purpose
(usually but not always sight)
CONTROL
to test or verify (a scientific experiment) by a parallel experiment or other standard of comparison.
HYPOTHESIS
set forth as an explanation for an occurrence or scientific theory(educated guess).
DEPENDENT VARIABLE
(in an experiment) the event studied and expected to change when the independent variable is changed.
INDEPENDENT VARIABLE
A variable that is not affected by any other variables with which it is compared.(the scientist control)
CONCLUSION
the last main division of a discourse, usually containing a summing up of the points and a statement of opinion or decisions reached.
DATA
individual facts, statistics, or items of information:
GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION
models of representation like(graphs, pie charts, data tables).
EXPERIMENT
a test, trial, tentative procedure, and an act or operation for the purpose of discovering something unknown.
SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURES
procedures that are in place to reduce injuries in a given experiment.
SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENTATION
is used to persuade someone that the data you present, and your arguments are strong enough, to support your theory, model, or proposed action.
CRITICAL THINKING
the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion
RELIABILITY
that may be relied on; dependable in achievement, and accuracy.