Scientific inquiry

4. variable. Your Independent Variable must be something you can systematically present to one group but not present in the same form to the other group
5. a scientific procedure undertaken to test a hypothesis
7. Your results. It will help to explain your data.
10. a series of actions conducted in a certain order or manner
13. examine methodically and in detail
14. a person who is studying or has expert knowledge of one or more of the natural or physical sciences
17. a person, place, thing, or phenomenon that you are trying to measure in some way
18. a systematic procedure, technique, or mode of inquiry
19. A proposed explanation to be tested with your experiment

1. an account that will make something clear
2. data. the process of gathering and measuring information on variables of interest
3. The first step is to ask these
6. Guess what will happen in the future
8. procedures allow others to make an exact copy of your experiment
9. They are done to discover new information and often involve experiments.
11. Watch carefully and pay attention to details
12. variable. any variable that's held constant in a research study
15. a conclusion. Make a judgment based on the data from your experiment.
16. The findings of your study based on the data you gathered