Biology Basics Vocabulary Practice

•Description of something you can see, smell, touch, taste, hear

•what the experimenter will deliberately change or manipulate in the investigation

•uses numbers to measure something •Examples: •5” long•6 legs•2.4 grams•8 stripes

•what changes in response to the independent variable•The Y-Axis on a graph

how close your measurement is to the correct/accepted value

The term that means exactness or accuracy

•A guess about an object or outcome based on your observations

The term used in research is a scientific method of observation to gather non-numerical data