SKILLS REVISITED

2. The use of the senses or equipment to receive information from the world around us
5. Something you think based on your observation
6. A comparison included in an experiment to allow researchers to test the hypothesis more accurately.
7. The process of undertaking a systematic scientific investigation (two words)
10. The closeness of a lab result to the actual (correct) result or accepted value
12. Data that only takes certain values - there are no in between results (two words)
14. An unexpected result or one that does not fit the general trend (two words)
16. Data which includes numbers, eg percentages, height, numbers of cars, mass(two words)
18. The variable that the researcher measures OR the variable that is affect by the change.(two words)
19. An idea that proposes an explanation about a phenomenon, i.e., your best guess

1. Variables which are kept the same (they are controlled) in an experiment to make it a fair test (two words)
3. The variable which the researcher deliberately changes to see if it has an effect.(two words)
4. A scientific magazine or website where scientists publish their experiments (two words)
8. The measure of how well an experiment answers the aim/hypothesis OR how well have I controlled the variables
9. The little notches along the scale on a axis which show where the values sit (two words)
11. Data that can take any values within a range (two words)
13. Data which is non number based, eg colour, absent/present (two words)
15. A process of scientists checking each other's work before publishing
17. The ability to obtain the same measurement OR how many times an experiment is repeated AND the same or similar results are obtained.