NOS Vocabulary Grade 8

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is a possible explanation for an observation that can be tested during a scientific investigation

information collected using specific methods for a specific purpose of studying or analyzing

is the factor that is changed by the investigator to observe how it affects other variables.

uses observations and measurements to explain something we see in the natural world, should match the evidence, and be logical

is a representation of an idea, an object or even a that is used to describe and explain phenomena that cannot be experienced directly

are the things that the scientist focuses his or her observations/measurements on to see how they have responded to the change made

system of theories or assertions about the natural world that claim or appear to be scientific but have no basis in scientific fact and do not follow the scientific method

is information acquired by observation or experimentation