Clay George

9/7/16
Period: 3

Vocabulary
1. Fumes- gas, smoke, or vapor that smells strongly or is dangerous to inhale.
-The passage of each of these ships through Venice produces exhaust equivalent to the fumes of 14,000 cars
or 2,000 trucks.

2. Irritant- a chemical that is not corrosive but that causes a reversible inflammatory effect on living
tissue by chemical action at the site of contact
-Though ammonium chloride has certain irritant properties which may disorder the stomach

3. Toxic- acting as or having the effect of a poison

- The seeds contain a toxic substance, which makes them actively poisonous
4.

Scientific method- a method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a
hypothesis is formulated from these data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested.
- Will water freeze faster or slower with the addition of sugar?

5.

Hypothesis- a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some
specified group
- The theory that this connection is based on the transference of the collective will of a people to certain
historical personages is a hypothesis unconfirmed by the experience of history.

6.

Independent variable- An independent variable is the variable that is changed or controlled in

a scientific experiment
- In a study to determine whether how long a student sleeps affects test scores, the independent
variable is length of time spent sleeping while the dependent variable is the test score
7. Dependent variable- The dependent variable is the variable that may change as a result of changes
in the independent variable.
- The dependent variable, or the variable being affected by the independent variable, is life span.
8. Control variable- in scientific experimentation is the experimental element which is constant and
unchanged throughout the course of the investigation.
- Omitting health status as a control variable increases the estimated hazard ratio to 1.10
9. Scientific law- a phenomenon of nature that has been proven to invariably occur whenever certain
conditions exist or are met
- Zipf's law

10. Scientific theory- is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based
on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment.
- Here's how it works, how I measured it, and some scientific theory to back up the findings.

11. Fact- something that actually exists

- Many of the calls made on behalf of the revolution are not hers and in factthere are many that she
disagrees with.

12. Test- the means by which the presence, quality, or genuineness of anything is determined; a means of trial
- Later that day, he went to his biology class and botched a test, because he was so distracted.
13. Trial- the act or an instance of trying or proving; test or experiment

-He had to do multiple trials to get his information approved.

14. Replication- the action of copying or reproducing something.
-He had to make an exact replica of his experiment for his results to be approved.
15. Repition- To repeat something over and over again
- Doing an experiment over a number of times, recording the results