Questions Scientists Ask
Another word for hypothesis
What is an prediction?
An advantage of using a computer generated model of a car?
What ios it is not as expensive?
Information from which a conclusion can be drawn is
What is data?
Scientists use this when drawing conclusions
What are facts?
Statement of what you think will happen during an investigation
What is a hypothesis?
Using the senses to gather information
What is an observation?
Asking a question, stating your hypothesis, identifying and controlling variables, making a plan, testing your hypothesis, and collecting, recording and interpreting your observations are the steps for this.
What are Steps for Investigation?
The ability to consistently repeat a measurement
What is precision?
Scientific investigations should be based on this
What is evidence?
Something you find out about objects events, or living things using your senses
What is an observation?
Scientists define a problem
Why scientists make a hypothesis before beginning an observation?
The reason scientists do repeated trials when doing an experiment.
What is to make sure your results are reliable?
The ability to make measurement that is as close to the actual value as possible.
What is accuracy?
Other scientists mus be able to do this?
What is replicate scientific investigations?
The use of the scientific methods to test a hypothesis
What is an experiment?
Scientists define a problem, make prediction, observe, and draw a conclusion
What are four things that scientists do?
Scientists using a model for an experiement instead of the actual object
What is because the objects studied may be to large, have many parts or are difficult to observe?
Four things that tools help you do?
What is see things you normally could not see, measure things, gather information, and analyze data.
A set of observations that make you believe that something is true.
What is evidence?
Something that can change in a test
What is a variable?
Scientists can help people answer questions, solve problems, and form new ideas through the use of this
What is the scientific process?
In an experiment just one variable can change. All others need to stay the same. The group that stays the same is
What is the control group?
A conclusion based on an observation
What is an inference?
Something you find out about objects, events, or living things using your senses.
What is observation?
A standard against which change is measured
What is a control group?