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| breaking an idea or problem down into its parts. |
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| the result or outcome of an act or process. |
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| a part of the experiment that is not being tested. |
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| factual info. gathered during an experiment,especially info. organizedfor analysis or used to reason or mak deisions. |
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| the part of the experiment thats affected by the independent variable. |
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| the conditon of having incorrect or false knowledge. |
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| a test under contolled conditions thats made to demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hyothesis, or determine the efficacy of something previousley untried. |
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| an educated guess based on oberservations and previous knowledge. |
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| the part of the experiment that is manipulated or changed by the scientists or person performing the experiment. |
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| the act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evedince. |
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a "rule of nature" that describes the behavior of something in nature; generally predicts or describes what will happenin a given situation but does not explain why.
(example: law of motion, law of gravity) |
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| the act of noting and recording something,such as a phenomenon |
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| a series of steps taken to accomplish a given task. |
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| giving the same result on repeated trials. |
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| a process thats used to find answers to questions about the world around us. its the step-by-step method of conducting an experiment. |
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| an explanation backed by results obtained ffrom repeated tests or experiment. |
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| liable to be wrong or misleading;not to be trusted. |
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| any part of the experiment that can vary or change. |
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