Intro to Science
Scientific Method
Experimental Design
Data Analysis
Grab Bag
100
True or false: Science is unchangeable.
What is False?
100
This is what the "S" in "S.T.I.F.F." stands for.
What is specific?
100
This is the part of the experiment that the scientist changes on purpose.
What is independent variable?
100
This is another word for mean.
What is average?
100
This is the title of the first Harry Potter Book
What is "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?"
200
This is the term that means information you gather using your five senses.
What is an observation?
200
This term, which is a quality of a good scientific question, means "able to be wrong."
What is falsifiable?
200
This is the number of things you can change at a time in an experiment.
What is ONE?
200
This is the mean of 5, 6, and 7.
What is 6?
200
This is the number of noses a slug has.
What is four?
300
True or False: Science is always a simple six step process.
What is False?
300
This is the correct format for a hypothesis.
What is "If...then...because..."
300
A student is testing the effect of different fertilizers on plant growth. This would be a good control group.
What is a plant that gets no fertilizer?
300
This is the way you calculate range.
What is the maximum (highest) number minus the minimum (smallest) number?
300
This word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it.
What is "short?"
400
This term means a guess based on your observations.
What is inference (or hypothesis)?
400
This is the format of most scientific questions.
What is "How does_____affect______?"
400
A student is testing the effect of different fertilizers on plant growth. These are three examples of controlled variables.
What is...(any three of the following) Same pot, same soil, same water, same light, same type of plant, same height of plant to start, same amount of fertilizer, same measuring device, etc. (there are other possible answers)
400
This is the type of graph you should make if your independent variable is continuous.
What is a line graph?
400
This is the term for a flock of crows.
What is a murder?
500
This is the meaning of testable.
What is "you can test it using an experiment?"
500
This is one reason the 6-step scientific method is inaccurate.
What is....(any one of the following) it is too simple it has a clear start and finish it is missing lots of important steps (there are other possible answers)
500
This is the word that belongs in the blank: Sources of error result from _________________ variables in an experiment.
What is uncontrolled?
500
This is the meaning of "precision."
What is how close together your data points are to one another?
500
This is the answer to the following riddle: What travels around the whole world, but stays in one spot?
What is a stamp?
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