Vocab Words
Using 5 senses to collect information
What is observe?
What is the first step of the scientific method?
Asking questions/ observing.
What is a hypothesis?
What scientific investigations are based on
fact or opinion?
Finding ways objects and events are similar
What is compare?
What three words MUST a hypothesis have
"If" and "Then" and "Because"
Step by step instructions for completing an experiement
What are procedures?
The number of variables you should have in an experiment
What is one.
The study of the natural world
What is science?
Educated guess/using what you know to make a predicton
What is a hypothesis?
The ability to make a measurement that is as close to the correct measurement as possible
precision or accuracy?
What is accuracy?
You use these to make observations
What are your five senses?
Any condition in an experiment that can be changed
What is a variable?
What does the conclusion answer?
Your hypothesis/ question
A conclusion based on observations
What is an inference?
The tool you would use to measure mass
graduated cylinder
triple beam balance
meter stick
microscope
What is a triple beam balance?
The set up to which you compare all others to/something you base your experiment off of/does not change
What is the control?
If you are testing your hypothesis, what are you actually doing?
What is do the experiment?
The ability to consistently repeat a measurement over and over again
precision or accuracy?
What is precision?