Unit 1 - Scientific Method Vocabulary

Data that has to do with descriptions

Data that has to do with numbers

In a experiment how many groups are there?

The question or problem we are trying to answer is called

What is the difference between a prediction and a hypothesis

Hypothesis statements are written in IF____________THEN__________ format

An educated guess

The group that has the independent varible(s) in it/ the group we are directly testing

When your hypothesis was right

The group that has the NORMAL aspect of the expirement in it to be another point of comaprison

The thing(s)/ variable(s) we keep the SAME at all times as a point of COMPARISON

When your hypothesis was wrong

The thing/ varibale we are directly CHANGING or TESTING

The thing/ variable we are MEASURING

In a lab write up we NEED to list the: