Understand Scientific Experimentation Terms

Variable in a controlled experiment that is deliberately

changed; the manipulated variable.

The variable that is observed/measured; the response variable.

Group in a scientific experiment that does NOT receive the independent variable; all other variables are held constant.

Organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world:

Scientific study of life:

The act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful way:

Logical interpretation based on what scientists already know:

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

A test in which only one variable is changed and tested, and all other variables remain the same:

Variable that is the same in both groups of a controlled experiment: