Scientific Investigation
A method or series of steps for doing something.
What is a PROCEDURE?
Factors that limit how you can solve a problem?
What are CONSTRAINTS?
The "genetic blueprint" that contains the code for all the traits that make up an organism.
What is DNA?
This is the hub of the University of Minnesota's School of Architecture.
What is RAPSON HALL?
A chart with rows and columns used to organize data.
What is a TABLE?
One time through a procedure.
What are TRIALS?
Goals that must be satisfied to be able to successfully achieve a challenge.
What are CRITERIA?
The building block of all living things.
What is a CELL?
When people can't access the food they need to live to their fullest lives.
What is FOOD INSECURITY?
The degree of closeness of the measurements with each other. (True to itself)
What is PRECISION?
A picture used to show data in a meaningful way.
What is a GRAPH?
Changes that make something better.
What are IMPROVEMENTS?
This international water treatment company's name alludes to their original product from the 1960s, high altitude research balloons.
What is PENTAIR?
A section of a street, typically in a downtown area of a city, where vehicular traffic is excluded.
What is THE MALL?
The degree of closeness of the measurements to the target or reference value. (True to intention)
What is ACCURACY?
Information gathered during an investigation or experiment.
What is DATA?
The main reason for beginning a scientific investigation.
What is a PROBLEM STATEMENT?
How something is put together. For example, DNA is a double helix, and plant cells have cell walls but animal cells don't.
What is STRUCTURE?
The process of growing plants without soil, but with nutrients added to sand, gravel, or liquid.
What is HYDROPONICS?
To understand something or explain it.
What is INTERPRET?
A prediction of what might happen in an experiment.
What is a HYPOTHESIS?
Steps taken when engineering something new, including brainstorming, building a model, testing and redesigning.
What is the DESIGN PROCESS?
How something operates. For example, the smooth ER makes lipids while the rough ER makes proteins.
What is FUNCTION?
With architecture inspired by the Minnesota landscape of wood, water and copper, this building is also the alumni center for the University of Minnesota.
What is MCNAMARA?
A factor whose value may change over the course of an experiment.
What is a VARIABLE?