Scientific Method
A series of steps designed to help you solve problems and answer questions
What is the Scientific Method?
When a scientist shares her findings with other scientists, she is
What is communicating results?
What is the 1st step of the scientific method?
Ask a Question
This is when a solid becomes a gas
What is sublimation?
"Scientists are the only individuals who use the Scientific Method"
True or false
What is false!
This is the first step of the Scientific Method
What is Ask a Question?
Is this safe or unsafe: Jonnie and his partner are playing at their desks while heating a liquid.
What is unsafe?
Only one of the hypothesis is written correctly
A) If a tennis ball is frozen, it won't bounce as high
B) If I heat up a tennis ball it will bounce high.
C) Frozen tennis balls will not bounce as high.
D) If I freeze a tennis ball, then it will not bounce as high.
What is answer choice D? If I freeze a tennis ball, then it will not bounce as high.
This is when a gas becomes a solid
What is deposition?
this is when a property of matter changes from a liquid to a gas
What is evaporation?
This is an educated guess about the outcome of an experiment
What is a Hypothesis?
When you are making a judgement based on prior experience, you are making this
What is an inference?
Gathering information by using your senses
What is observation?
On cold mornings, water vapour in the air hits a freezing surface (like a window or a leaf) and turns directly into ice crystals. (frost)
What is deposition?
Drying Clothes: Water leaving wet laundry on a clothesline is an example of ...
What is evaporation?
What is drawing a conclusion?
A final statement about your results
What is the conclusion?
To watch carefully and notice importance
What is observation?
This is when a gas becomes a liquid
What is condensation?
This is the specific name for when a solid (like dry ice) skips the liquid stage and turns directly into a gas.
What is sublimation?
This is the question we asked for our first experiment.
How does matter change?
These are the 7 steps of the Scientific Method
Ask Question, Research, Form Hypothesis, Create Experiment, Analyze Data, Form Conclusion, Communicate Results
This is when a solid becomes a liquid
What is melting?
Cold Drink: Water droplets forming on the outside of a cold soda can on a hot day is an example of...
What is condensation?
This is the 4th state of matter
What is the plasma?
It is similar to a gas, but it carries an electric charge. It forms when gas gets so incredibly hot that its electrons are stripped away.
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