What Scientists Do
How Do Scientists Investigate?
How Do Scientists Collect and Interpret Data?
How do Scientists Support their Conclusions?
Misc.
100
something scientists find out about objects, events, or living things using their senses
What are observations?
100
the use of scientific methods to test your hypothesis
What is experiment?
100
when measurements are consistently repeated
What is precision?
100
facts that make you believe something is true
What is evidence?
100
something that can change in a test
What is a variable?
200
a statement of what you think will happen during a scientific investigation
What is hypothesis?
200
objects or ideas that represent other things
What are models?
200
information from which a conclusion can be drawn or a prediction can be made
What is data?
200
in order for an experiment to be valid, other scientists should be able to _________________ it
What is replicate?
200
step-by-step instructions for completing a task
What are procedures?
300
after scientists define a problem they begin their investigation with
What is research?
300
Scientists examine RANDOM individuals from a population
What is sampling?
300
when measurements are known to a close measurement
What is accuracy?
300
Scientists defend their conclusions by using the __________________ they made during their investigations
What are observations?
300
scientists define a problem and try to find
What are answers?
400
scientists use their observation to draw...
What are conclusions?
400
a standard against which change is measured
What is control group?
400
used to measure volume
What is a graduated cylinder ?
400
one way for scientists to ensure their work is valid is to share their results with __________ _____________
What are other scientists?
400
belief or value judgement
What is an opinion?
500
What are four things that scientists do?
What are: define problems make hypotheses make observations draw conclusions?
500
three types of investigations scientists can use without doing a controlled experiment
What are models, surveys, and sampling?
500
a conclusion based on observations
What is an inference?
500
in order for a conclusion to be accepted by the scientific community, it must be based on
What are facts?
500
a control group gives you something to compare to the _______________ _______________
What is experimental group?
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