8-1 (INQUIRY & FORCE) Vocabulary NAME: ______

1. INDEPENDENT VARIABLE: THE VARIABLE THAT CHANGES OR IS MANIPULATED

2. DEPENDENT (RESPONDING) VARIABLE: THE VARIABLE THAT RESPONDS TO THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLE

3. CONTROL VARIABLE OR CONSTANT: THE VARIALBE THAT STAYS THE SAME THROUGHOUT THE EXPERIMENT.

4. CONTROL GROUP: THE EXPERIMENT WITH THE VARIABLE OR IV LEFT OUT AND IS USED FOR COMPARISON (IS REPRESENTED SOMETIMES BY THE NUMBER 0)

5. QUANTITATIVE OBSERVATION: OBSERVATION USING NUMBERS

6. QUALITATIVE OBSERVATION: OBSERVATION USING YOUR 5 SENSES

7. INFERENCE: MAKING AN ASSUMPTION ON WHAT YOU OBSERVE

8. HYPOTHESIS: AN EDUCATED GUESS THAT CAN BE TESTED (TESTABLE STATEMENT)

9. FORCE: PUSH OR PULL (THE UNIT OF FORCE IS NEWTONS, N)

10. SPRING SCALE: MEASURES FORCE

11. SPEED: MEASURES HOW FAST SOMETHING MOVES A PARTICULAR DISTANCE OVER A GIVEN AMOUNT OF TIME (EXAMPLE: 50 MPH)

12. MASS: AMOUNT OF MATTER IN AN OBJECT. IT DOES NOT DEPEND ON GRAVITY/IT IS NOT A FORCE/ IT DOES NOT CHANGE IF YOU GO TO ANOTHER PLANET

13. MOTION: OCCURS WHEN THERE IS A CHANGE IN POSITION OF AN OBJECT WITH RESPECT TO A REFERENCE POINT. INQUIRY & 8.P.2A.1 VOCABULARY

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1. OBSERVATION USING YOUR 5 SENSES 2. PUSH OR PULL (THE UNIT OF FORCE IS NEWTONS, N) 3. MEASURES HOW FAST SOMETHING MOVES A PARTICULAR 4. AMOUNT OF MATTER THAT DOES NOT DEPEND ON GRAVITY/NOT A FORCE/ DOES NOT CHANGE Down 1. THE VARIABLE THAT CHANGES OR MANIPULATED 2. THE VARIABLE THAT RESPONDS TO THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLE 3. THE VARIABLE THAT STAYS THE SAME THROUGHOUT THE EXPERIMENT. 4. IS THE EXPERIMENT WITH THE VARIABLE OR IV LEFT OUT AND IS USED FOR COMPARISON (IS REPRESENTED SOMETIMES BY THE NUMBER 0) 5. MAKING AN ASSUMPTION ON WHAT YOU OBSERVE 6. AN EDUCATED GUESS THAT CAN BE TESTED (TESTABLE STATEMENT) 7. MEASURES FORCE 8. OCCURS WHEN THERE IS A CHANGE IN POSITION OF AN OBJECT WITH RESPECT TO REFERENCE POINT Key For more free tools visit http://edtools.mankindforward.com

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1. qualitativeobservation 2. force 3. speed 4. mass

1. independentvariable 2. dependentvariable 3. constant 4. controlgroup 5. inference 6. hypothesis 7. springscale 8. motion