Glossary
A
- analyze
- - to study or examine something in your possession so as to understand its meaning
- antibiotic
- - medicine that kills disease-causing bacteria
B
- bacteria
- - one-celled organisms, both harmful and helpful, found throughout the earth
- brainstorm
- - to generate a number of ideas or solutions
C
- conclusion
- - A reasonable judgment or summary of what you learned
- consistent
- - staying the same over time
D
- data
- - numbers and measurements you get from the test in a scientific experiment
E
- efficient
- - functioning well, without wasting time or effort
- eventually
- - after a long passage of time
F
- filament
- - a thin thread-like conductor that is heated to glowing by the passage of electric current
- foundation
- - the basis on which other things are built
H
- hypothesis
- - an educated guess about how things work, an testable explanation
I
- improve
- - to make more useful, valuable, or desirable
- incandescent
- - glowing with intense heat
- innovation
- - new changes to things which already exist
- investigation
- - A quest to find the answer to a question using the scientific method
M
- modify
- - to make small changes or adjustments
- mold
- - a growth of fungi attached to something
O
- observation
- - what you learn when you look closely, see, hear, or touch
- original
- - new, first, not been done before
P
- perseverance
- - continued, sustained effort even when it's difficult
- practical
- - capable of being put to everyday use
- productive
- - successfully perform tasks in timely manner
- prototype
- - a first, functional model of a new design
R
- refine
- - to modify, improve, or change something
- research
- - to find and collect information about a subject
- results
- - the outcomes or consequences of an experiment
S
- survive
- - to stay alive
T
- technology
- - the science of turning the materials of the natural world into objects, tools, and machines
- tinkering
- - adjusting or working with something in an experimental way, without a sure outcome
V
- variable
- - factor that can cause your test results to change
