Technology & Science
Scientific Method
Science Skills
Science Attitudes
Experiments
100
How people change the world around them to meet their needs
What is Technology?
100
Using one or more of your senses to gather information
What is Observing?
100
Explaining or interpreting the things you observe based on reasoning from what you already know.
What is Inferring?
100
Being eager to learn more about topics...
What is Curiosity?
100
Observations that deal with a number or amount
What are Quantitative Observations?
200
Making life easier, safer and more convenient for humans
What is the Goal of Technology?
200
Done by scientists after collecting and graphing data
What is drawing Conclusions?
200
Making a forecast of what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence.
What is Predicting?
200
Reporting observations and results truthfully...
What is Honesty?
200
Observations that deal with descriptions using words that cannot be expressed in numbers
What are Qualitative Observations?
300
Advances in one contribute to advances in the other, making them dependent upon each other.
What is the relationship between Science and Technology?
300
The correct format for writing a Scientific Hypothesis (hint: this is how the sentence is written)
What is "If..., then...."?
300
When scientists put things into categories or group together items that are alike in some way
What is Classifying?
300
Coming up with inventive ways to solve problems or produce new things...
What is Creativity?
300
Data is presented in this in order to reveal trends.
What is a Graph?
400
Can have positive and negative consequences for society
What is Impact of technology?
400
Problem/Question, Observation/Research, Hypothesis, Experiment, Results, Conclusion, Communication
What are the seven steps of the scientific method (in order)?
400
When scientists create another way to show a complex process or something too big or too small to observe
What is Making Models?
400
Being capable of accepting new and different ideas...
What is Open-Mindedness?
400
An experiment that has a testable hypothesis and only one manipulated variable.
What is a Controlled Experiment?
500
A person who is trained to use both technology and science knowledge to solve practical problems.
What is an Engineer?
500
The diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on the evidence they gather.
What is Scientific Inquiry?
500
A scientist uses these skills to learn about and measure which cat food cats prefer.
What is Observing, Classifying, Predicting? (Must get 2)
500
An attitude of doubt, not believing everything you hear until you test it yourself...
What is Skepticism?
500
An experimenter’s choice of how to measure a particular variable or define a particular term
What is Operational Definition?
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