Question: a testable idea that attempt to explain a phenomenon or answer a scientific question.

Answer: hypothesis

Question: a specific statement about what will happen if a hypothesis is true.

Answer: prediction

Question: the variable a scientists manipulates in an experiment

Answer: independent variable

Question: a variable that depends on the conditions set up in an experiment

Answer: dependent variable

Question: a study in which all variables are controlled except for the one variable being investigated.

Answer: controlled study

Question: information gathered from a study

Answer: data

Question: What are two components of science?

Answer: Science is both a systematic process for learning about the natural world and a summary of what scientists already have learned.

Question: What does the natural world include?

Answer: Every part of our physical environment and the forces and energies that operate on and within our environment.

Question: What is the goal of science?

Answer: To discover how the rules of the natural world operate and what effect they have.

Question: How do scientists examine the workings of the natural world?

Answer: By collecting evidence.