The Scientific Method Vocabulary

The process by which scientific papers are reviewed by anonymous, independent experts.

The group in an experiment that receives the variable being tested.

An organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world.

To narrow the focus of the inquiry and to identify the problem in specific terms.

a scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it

Data that is descriptive and involves characteristics that cannot usually be counted.

A particular point of view that is personal rather than scientific.

Factors that can change throughout an experiment like temperature, light, time, & availability of nutrients.

The act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way.

The process by which scientists observe, ask questions, form hypotheses, conduct experiments, and analyze data.

A logical interpretation based on what scientists already know

Numbers obtained by counting or measuring are called this type of data.

A variable that is deliberately changed in an experiment.

The name for an article that is published by scientists for the world to read and must be peer review first.

A statement that describes an observable occurrence in nature that appears to always be true

A variable that is observed and changes in response to the independent variable.

Information upon which inferences are based and consists of a collected body of data from observations & experiments

Experiment where one variable is changed and the others are kept unchanged.

The group exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group except for one independent variable.

A well tested explanation that makes sense of a great variety of scientific observations and hypotheses

Detailed records of experimental observations documented by scientists.