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Copyright © Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.Skim Section 3 of the chapter. Write two questions that come to
mind from reading the headings and illustration captions.1.2.Use your book or dictionar y to define theory.Write the correct vocabular y term in the left column for each
definition below.information gained from observationsgroup in an experiment that is exposed to the factor being testeddirect method of gathering information in an orderly waygroup in an experiment that is not exposed to the factor being
tested and is used for comparisonorganized series of events in scientific inquiryfactor in an experiment that results from or depends on changes to
the independent variablelogo that alerts you about a specific danger during lab activitiesfactor that remains fixed during an experiment while the independent
and dependent variables changetested factor in an experiment that might affect the outcometestable explanation of a situationinvestigation done in a controlled setting that tests a hypothesislogical conclusion based on gathered informationoccurrence of accidental or unexpected, but fortunate, resultstheor yThe Study of Life
Section 1.3 Methods of Science
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