Process Skills
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country_gurl_098 on September 2, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Process Skills | what people do when they do science |
| Observation | using your 5 senses or measurement |
| Qualitative Observation | using any 5 senses to descibe an object |
| Quantitative Observation | are measurements made with instruments that result in numbers |
| "Inference | a conclusion not directly provided by evidence, but able to be drawn from the facts at hand |
| Prediction | a guess about what will happen in the future based in an observation or inference |
| Classification | The process of grouping things based on their similarities. |
| Measurement | a quantitative description that includes both a number and a unit |
| independent | the variable that will change in the experiment |
| dependent | the variable you will measure in your experiment |
| contolled variable | the variable s thast stay the same in your experiment |
| control group | the group that does not recive the change in as scientific experiment |
| Experimental Group | the group that does recive the change in a scientifia experiment |
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