Scientific inquiry involves observing a phenomenon, asking questions about it, hypothesizing potential explanations, designing experiments to test hypotheses by manipulating independent variables and controlling other factors, analyzing results, reporting findings, subjecting work to peer review, and distinguishing between hypotheses, which are tentative explanations requiring further testing, and theories, which are well-established explanations supported by repeated testing.

1. VI. Scientific InquiryObservationQuestionHypothesizeExperimentIndependent vs Dependent variablesControlled variablesSample sizeAnalyze & ReportPeer review

2. Hypothesis vs Theory