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1.1 Planning Investigation
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- 11.1 Planning InvestigationBy: Mina Torabi 9B
- 2What is Scientific Method?The scientific method is a practical way of asking and answering scientific questions.
- 3What is an Observation?An observation means closely monitoring something or someone.
- 4Define Experiment.Experiment means testing out a hypothesis under controlled conditions to examine its validity.
- 5Define Variable.Variable means a factor or condition that can change the result of an experiment.
- 6Define controlled variable.Controlled variables means the variable kept constant throughout an experiment.
- 7What is a fair test?A fair test is an experiment where one variable is changed; one variable is measured and all other variables are controlled.
- 8What is the meaning of a hypothesis?Hypothesis means a statement about the relationship between two variables which can often be tested experimentally; an educated guess.
- 9What does the dependent variable mean?It means the variable you are measuring; it changes as the independent variable changes.
- 10Define Independent variable.It means a variable that is changed in a systemic way in an experiment.
- 11Define Inference.inference: a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence, an educated guess.
- 12What is the difference between Independent and Dependent variable?Dependent variable is what you are measuring and independent is changed in a systemic way.
- 13What would a correctly written hypothesis state?What you expect will happen in the experiment.
- 14THANK YOU!BYE.
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