| Term | Definition |
| observation | when you use one or more of your 5 senses to gather information |
| Quanitiative Data | observations that use descriptions |
| Qualitative Data | Observations that use numbers |
| inference | when you explain a observation |
| prediction | making a inference about a future event based on past experience or evidence |
| Indepedent Variable | the variable we controll in the experiment |
| Dependent Variable | measured durring the experiment, after you start following the procedures |
| Scientific method | the process scentists use to gather info and answer questions |
| science inquiry | being curious and asking questions by observing the world around them |
| control | all of the factors that remain the same |
| controlled experiment | an experiment where all factors exceps independent variables are kept the same |
| observation | when you use one or more of your 5 senses to gather info |