Vocabulary
A flexible guide used by scientists to help answer questions about the natural world is called the _____________.
What is the scientific method?
Testing plant growth in different types of soil is an _______.
What is an experiment?
The scientific method is used in both basic investigations and experiments.
True or false?
What is False?
During an _______ we use our 5 senses to answer questions about the natural world.
What is observation?
I think Fortnite is the best game ever designed.
Is this a verified observation or personal opinion?
What is a personal opinion?
One thing you change in an experiment is ____________.
What is a variable?
I would like to see how tall a flower can grow in a month.
Would I conduct an investigation or an experiment?
What is an investigation?
The first step in the scientific method is _________.
What is to identify a problem?
A conclusion based on prior knowledge or evidence is known as _______.
What is inference?
After completing a survey, I know that 70 percent of LTE students like Fortnite.
Is this a verified observation or personal opinion?
What is a verified observation?
The one thing that you set to the side for comparing is called the ________.
What is a control group?
I want to see how many students at LTE like the color red more than blue.
Am I going to conduct an experiment or basic investigation?
What is an investigation?
The scientific method is a flexible guide because _______.
The steps are never parallel. In other words, the steps are not always completed in the same order.
Most people at LTE today are wearing red, white, and blue.
Is this an inference or observation?
What is observation?
That flower looks really tall and beautiful.
Is this a verified observation or personal opinion?
What is a personal opinion?
when you replicate an experiment multiple times, you are completing __________.
What are repeated trials?
Bianca wants to test whether plant food will help her flowers live longer. She plants four flowers in the same spot and gives each the same amount of water. She sets flower A to the side and does not give it any plant food. Flowers B, C, and D receive different kinds of plant food. After they grow, she measures the height and growth rate of each plant.
What is the variable?
What is types of plant food?
The final step in the scientific method is _______.
What is to share results?
The caterpillar did not eat the moth because it is not a carnivore.
Is this an inference or observation?
What is inference?
There are 365 days in a year, but every four years there are 366 days.
Is this a verified observation or personal opinion?
What is Verified observation?
information or facts verified (checked) by data/results is called ________.
What is empirical evidence?
Bianca wants to test whether plant food will help her flowers live longer. She plants four flowers in the same spot and gives each the same amount of water. She sets flower A to the side and does not give it any plant food. Flowers B, C, and D receive different kinds of plant food. After they grow, she measures the height and growth rate of each plant.
Which flower was the control group?
What is Flower A?
A hypothesis is always going to be an _________ statement.
What is an if, then statement?
I can jump high in tennis shoes because they have rubber on the bottom.
Is this an inference or observation?
What is an inference?
Mondays go by extremely slow.
Is this a verified observation or personal opinion?
What is personal opinion?