Science - the study of the natural world; learning how and why things happen, Scientific Method - a series of steps used to answer questions and solve problems, Observation - using the 5 senses to gather information, Inference - a translation of what is observed based on prior knowledge, Problem - asking a question about how or why something happens, Research - collecting background information about a scientific question, Hypothesis - an educated guess or prediction to a scientific question, Experiment - a way of testing a hypothesis by manipulating one variable at a time, Analyze - making sense of the data collected from an experiment, Data - measurements and observations made during an experiment, Conclusion - final summary of the experiment; answers whether the hypothesis was right or wrong, Communicate - sharing the results of an experiment with other scientists, Independent Variable - the one thing in an experiment that is changed/tested, Dependent Variable - the thing that is being measured in an experiment, the data to be collected, Constants - everything that stays the same across all of the groups in an experiment, Control Group - the group that is not being tested; the normal group used for comparison, Experimental Group - the group that is being tested with the independent variable, Scientific Theory - an explanation based on many observations and supported by experiments, tells you why something happens, Scientific Law - a rule of nature that summarized observations and results; tells you what will happen, Model - a representation of an object, idea, or system,

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