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Future Topics
Vocabulary
Laboratory Safety
Various Variables
100

This is the estimated population of Arkansas. (Hint: it is in the millions)

What is a population of 3.046 million?

100

The closest planet to the sun

What is Mercury?

100

A subjective belief that affects a person's attitude towards something OR an error in the design of an experiment that affects the results of the experiment

What is bias?

100

This is NOT an appropriate action when using electrical equipment in the lab

What is using equipment with frayed cords?

100

The variable that is intentionally changed or manipulated by the researcher

What is an independent variable?

200

This was the very first year Disney World was opened.

What is the year 1971?

200

Structural changes to genes

What are mutations?

200

Observations and conclusions that have been repeated

What is evidence?

200

This is NOT a recommended practice for handling glassware in the laboratory

What is handling broken glass with your bare hands?

200

The inclusion of this group distinguishes a controlled experiment from other types of scientific investigations

What is a control group?

300

This team won the very first Super Bowl 35-10 in 1967.

Who are the Green Bay Packers?

300

When the arrangement of objects interacting at a distance changes, different amounts of this kind of energy are stored in the system

What is potential energy?

300

This is an approximation of a number based on reasonable assumptions

What is estimate?

300

This is considered proper attire for a laboratory setting

What is closed-toed shoes and long pants?

300

The variable that is kept constant throughout the experiment

What is a controlled variable?

400

This person has the most followers (over 600 million) on Instagram.  (Hint: soccer)

Who is Cristiano Ronaldo?

400

The amplitude of a wave is related to this in a wave

What is energy?

400

Part of the Scientific Method; the steps or instructions of how to do an experiment

What is procedure?

400

The first thing you should do in case of a fire in the laboratory

What is try to locate the nearest exit calmly?

400

In an experiment, this is the variable that is measured...

What is the dependent variable?

500

This was the year the first cellphone was released...and it was about the size of a brick.

What is the year 1973?

500

These can be reflected, absorbed, or transmitted through various materials

What are waves?

500

This is a possible explanation for a set of observations or an answer to a scientific question; must be testable

What is a hypothesis?

500

This is the correct procedure if you accidentally spill on your skin in the lab

What is wash the area with water and inform your instructor immediately?

500

This is the variable that you find on the y-axis (vertical line) of a graph

What is a dependent variable?

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