SCIENTIFIC METHOD VOCABULARY STUDY CARDS
OBSERVATION- Using your senses to describe something
INFERENCE- A guess not based on evidence
PROBLEM- The question you are trying to answer
BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE- Information about the problem
HYPOTHESIS- Proposed solution based on evidence
INDEPENDENT VARIABLE- What you are changing in an experiment
DEPENDENT VARIABLE- What happens when you change something
CONTROL- Part of the experiment that does not receive the variable